Comment Re:Responsibility to customers (Score 1) 437
Your being too nice about it.
Perhaps I am, reading the comments I do see the POV where Amazon severely infringes on the rights of their customers if you follow the line of thinking that once you have sold the product to someone they own it. But it is not new that this right is infringed upon and perhaps I have become somewhat dulled to the effects of it. Let me explain.
I have worked as a systems administrator in the past where we used volume licenses for the Microsoft products we used. Windows XP was one of them. Stupidly enough we allowed some of our users to use a copy of windows on their home machines (which Microsoft actually allows or at least allowed at the time). A copy of our volume license must have ended up in a torrent network or something and it got blacklisted. Then with one of the automatic updates the product was noted as no longer "Genuine". For us this was not a very big deal because we contacted Microsoft, got a slap on the wrist and a new key, and fixed our issues quickly. But the users already using our software at home ended up being unable to update their machines properly anymore.
Long story short, with incidents like this and having worked at Joost where we had to find a way to deal with these sorts of DRM issues, I suppose it is easy to get used to things like this happening. Hopefully, this will improve in the future, but I think it is more likely that it is something that we are going to deal with more and more. Like the guy in the article says,
"This is probably going to happen again and we just have to learn to live with it."
Now I am not saying we should live with it, but it is easier. Damn, I guess I really am a pushover!