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[–] tribblepuncher 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago  (edited ago)

This is why I won't buy a Kindle, because Amazon has pulled this kind of shit several times before.

Plus, this is also one of the many, many reasons why copyright is bad as it is currently enforced and needs to be smacked down and HARD.

Because this is the tip of the ice berg.

EDIT: Also, this is another reason why one should be very careful about what updates one accepts.

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[–] RightAuthoritarian 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The solution is easy enough. My two-year-old Kindle Paperwhite has never connected to the Internet and is in perpetual airplane mode. Nothing forces you to buy eBooks from Amazon and all of the books worth reading are out of copyright by this point anyway.