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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercutio01" data-source="post: 4873757" data-attributes="member: 37277">If you buy something from a fence, you don't have a reasonable right to think the product is being legally sold.  If you are purchasing something from a reputable retailer, it's a different story. I'm not saying they were legally wrong to do what they did.  I'm saying that based on precedent it may not have been the wisest choice, especially considering the huge negative press Amazon has taken in the last six months (the bug with "adult" literature and Twitter's #Amazonfail) and the idea of an Orwellian literature deletion (which was unfortunately coupled with texts by Orwell).This is true, but also unsettling.  It's practical to do it and probably right in some cases, but the line between proper and improper is very fine.  Politics and entities like wikipedia comes to mind as huge problems within the electronic data and deletion realm.You will note, of course, that I did say that the purchasers of the books were not knowingly in the possession of stolen property.  The books were being sold through, I think, Books-a-Million and Atlantic Books, both (smaller) chain stores, and were in the remainder aisles with the black marks across the page ends.And I'm willing to bet that if Amazon had taken that one little step of informing the customers this would never have become an international news item.</blockquote>