{"id":8856,"date":"2009-07-20T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-20T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T11:14:00","slug":"amazon-sends-orwell-to-memory-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/8856-amazon-sends-orwell-to-memory-hole.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon sends Orwell to &#039;memory hole&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Thursday, customers on Amazon&#8217;s web forums said copies of the British author&#8217;s dystopian classics &#8220;Animal Farm&#8221; and &#8220;Nineteen Eighty-Four&#8221; were mysteriously wiped from their Kindle devices.<\/p>\n<p>The online retailer later told CNET the books were uploaded by a publisher who did not have reproduction rights and so they were deleted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers&#8217; devices, and refunded customers,&#8221; spokesman Drew Herdener said.<\/p>\n<p>The move drew unfavorable comparisons to events in Orwell&#8217;s &#8220;Nineteen Eighty-Four&#8221;, in which documents unfavorable to a fictional authoritarian government are dropped into a &#8220;memory hole&#8221;, to be erased forever.<\/p>\n<p>Herdener said the system would be changed so books would not be erased in future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=182947\"><strong>Amazon erasing Orwell books<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has fended off accusations of Big Brother-like behaviour after it quietly erased two George Orwell books from customers&#039; electronic book readers last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}