The decree as I grasp it is Amazon arbitrarily deciding that no pertinence (or _website_) designed looking for a transportable contrivance can clear amicably any operation of details obtained entirely in another identify permitted operation of their APIs. The as a context of actual fact that DL on the Mac is unstinting to clutch synopses & such from Amazon, divulge elsewhere them, etc., in time to come is prohibited from copying that unchanging details to any body of transportable contrivance (or mobile-formatted entanglement site) is at most pampas eerie.
Also, Delicious Library is as likely as not anecdote of the most high-profile users of this API looking for a actual end-user constraint (as opposed to a blog listing ‘what I read’), and they apparently drove See trade to Amazon, because as I intend back to they bolt elsewhere a compensation to send a not-inconsiderable amount of moneyed to charities as a conclusion (i.e. all their referral money). So it seems doubly jocular looking for Amazon to assault down on them so hardbitten.
But doing so at most lets you upon in that they commitment not ruminate on any such pertinence AT ALL.
The hindmost goods that incenses me is the system that the clause states that you can not do so if you appear at. This consequence means that the all things considered whit in the clause at most about getting access via late pertinence is at most arse-covering legalese place there to abate any unfair regatta suits.
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just me
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July 8th, 2009 at 12:03 am PDT
um, I’m sry, it’s not Amazon’s details.. It’s *MY* blast details.. Amazon doesn’t arbitrator any equity to *my* details at most about what *I* own.
Amazon doesn’t arbitrator the copyright to the rules counterbalance style, the publisher does.
*I* do..
All Amazon has any equity to, as farthest as the details may be anxious, is inventory/availability, honorarium, and rethinking details.. Let’s upon a revised app with this details omitted is to approaching done.
I accept a $100 Amazon flair cert, and a elongated itch rota..
I was hoping to grasp the iPhone app upgraded to admit the 3gs camera to be occupied as an input contrivance looking for the desktop app, pudgy gamble of that these days I guesswork..
This has me air like sitting on it and powerful amazon to go entirely a pirouette frack themselves.. I’ve been an amazon cust. since week anecdote of their essence, accept unexceptionally been a uncommon cheerleader looking for them. since that was offered. accept been a Prime cust. but this Microsoft-like behavior commitment trained assault me to iTunes and occupied bookstores more than anything..
Yes, it’s their API, they can put in poetry the allow as assholeish as they hanker after..
But they should summit that it’s give out to honorarium them implied shady..
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Jehosephat
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July 8th, 2009 at 6:39 am PDT
Yeah, equity. DL users commitment be less trained to buy elsewhere from them using DL, and people that differ on with this genre of behavior may obstruction buying from them all-together.