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# Outlawed by Amazon DRM
- URL: https://chrisenns.com/2012/10/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/
- Published: 2012-10-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-08T23:52:30.000Z
- Author: Chris Enns
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-04-08 17:47, #ichris

The machines are taking over. Or the corporations. Or both.

> A couple of days a go, my friend Linn sent me an e-mail, being very frustrated: Amazon just closed her account and wiped her Kindle. Without notice. Without explanation.

Although this may be a fairly isolated incident, this is one of the downsides of handing over all our media purchases to the digital world. If she had bought her books at a brick & mortar bookstore, they're not likely going to be able to come after her and take back or destroy all the books she'd purchased.

*Via [daringfireball.net](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/10/22/amazon-drm?ref=chrisenns.com)*