So Amazon should have thrown themselves in jail for selling it, or for allowing someone to sell it on their website. Amazon’s terms of service at the time granted customers the right to keep a “permanent copy of the applicable digital content.” As a customer, when I buy from a major merchant like Safeway or Amazon I have a reasonable expectation that they are not selling hot goods. If Safeway sells me a chicken and it turns out that their butcher bought them off the back of a truck, they don’t have the right to sneak into my house late at night and pump my stomach to get the chicken back.
Whether or not the book was legit, Amazon was completely in the wrong for deleting it. Fortunately, they seem to have accepted that this was wrong almost immediately afterwards, and have strengthened their policies against this.
