amznVibe - 3:28 am on Jul 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

Just to play the devil's advocate for a moment, if a local bookstore ordered a bunch of copies of 1984 from a cheap source and then found out after they sold a few the book was still under copyright and the copies were illegal and asked the customers to return them for a refund so they don't get in trouble with the law, would you return the book?

The difference here is they didn't ask, they told you, and that's what you get for using a proprietary device.

One day they will accidentally delete the wrong thing or they will get hacked and some script kiddie will issue a recall for all ebooks on every device just to be funny.

I'm all for ebooks on ever improving, lower cost devices, but not proprietary standards and "always on" devices that phone home.