It could!<\/p>\n
According to this other blog entry<\/a>, a completely innocent person has had their Amazon account closed. Which would be very inconvenient for anyone, but if you just happen to be a Kindle owner with a fair number of ebooks purchased it will be somewhat more than inconvenient.<\/p>\n You could believe that the person involved was involved in some sort of activity that Amazon didn’t approve of. Perhaps they were an anti-DRM activist of some kind; perhaps they accused Amazon of some under-hand business practice, or perhaps they just belonged to the wrong political party. Who knows? Amazon’s response to the situation is standard corporate double-talk designed to say as little as possible.<\/p>\n Conventionally, Amazon has a perfect right to cease doing business with anyone for whatever reason they choose. But removing access to purchases (such as Kindle books) is a whole different ball game.<\/p>\n At worst Amazon is guilty of theft and at best they have brought further disrepute to the whole DRM system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It could! According to this other blog entry, a completely innocent person has had their Amazon account closed. Which would be very inconvenient for anyone, but if you just happen to be a Kindle owner with a fair number of ebooks purchased it will be somewhat more than inconvenient. You could believe that the person […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[742,480],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","tag-amazon","tag-drm","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-ED","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}