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Submission + - Amazon Makes "1984" And "Animal Farm& (nytimes.com) 2

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Oracle Goddess

on Friday July 17, 2009 @03:26PM

Oracle Goddess writes: "In a story just dripping with irony, Amazon Kindle owners awoke this morning to discover that "1984" and "Animal Farm" had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for, and thought they owned. Apparently the publisher changed its mind about offering an electronic edition, and apparently Amazon, whose business lives and dies by publisher happiness, caved. It electronically deleted all books by this author from people's Kindles and credited their accounts for the price. Amazon Customer service responded to queries by stating that. "We've always been at war with Eastasia.""

Comment Re:For more information (Score 1) 174

by ITSecurityGuy on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @04:06PM (#22479234) Attached to: Digital Picture Frames Infected by Trojan Viruses

The "interesting article" link is not detected by LinkScanner as being malicious, but Finjan SecureBrowsing has analyzed the above web address as it currently exists on the web. The analysis indicates that: Potential virus behavior was detected on this page Detected virus name is Exploit.HTML.DialogArg McAfee SiteAdvisor reports: Browser exploit: Breached browser security When we browsed this site, it made unauthorized changes to our test PC. and the following user reports: User Review Summary for nimp.org This site is good (0) This site spams (0) Adware, spyware, or viruses (2) Excessive popups (3) Phishing or other scams (0) Bad shopping experience (0) Browser exploit (26) (NSFW) Example: avoid this site at all costs. when you first go on it, it shows a disgusting photo like pillowfight.jpg, and your computer won't respond to anything at all! not even the 3-finger salute! anyway, then it'll show at least 100 popups then it'll play in a quicktime audio thingee "HEY EVERYBODY I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORNO!!!" in rounds (kinda like when you sing in rounds, if you know what i mean).

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