If you're into keeping tabs on irony, check this out. Amazon apparently sent out its robotic droogs last night, deleting copies of the George Orwell novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four from Kindles without explanation, then refunding the purchase price. As you can imagine, a lot of people caught in the thick of Winston and Julia's love story aren't very happy -- and rightfully so -- the idea that we "own" the things we buy is pretty fundamental to... ownership. We're not sure exactly what happened, but it seems that the publisher of said novels, MobileReference, has changed its mind about selling content on the Kindle, and poof! Amazon remotely deleted all previously purchased copies. It's all a bit Orwellian, is it not? Good thing we "permanently borrowed" hard copies of both from our middle school library, huh? Let Hate Week commence. |
In case you wonder about my reference to "once again", I give you "Pacifism and the War". The Orwell essay that does not exist to modern lunatic Liberals.
And yes, we can get into debates about enforcement of property rights but the fact that this "just happened" in the Kindle system without careful thought pretty much proves the point of how Orwellian our overlords have become.
When they're not being Huxleyan of course.
And yes, we can get into debates about enforcement of property rights but the fact that this "just happened" in the Kindle system without careful thought pretty much proves the point of how Orwellian our overlords have become.
When they're not being Huxleyan of course.
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