


She bought a Kindle in the United Kingdom, took it home to Norway, and bought UK e-books on the Kindle. This week’s case involves a Norwegian woman (Google Translate) named Linn Nygaard. (The company did it before, ironically, with George Orwell’s 1984, back in 2009.) Over the past week, the tech world has been abuzz with news that-surprise, surprise-Amazon can remotely wipe any Kindle, at any time, for effectively any reason. Yes, many parts of the Internet have known about this technique for some time now, but we feel that it bears mentioning again here. If you buy e-books from Amazon and want to engage in a bit of digital civil disobedience-by stripping the files’ DRM and making sure that Amazon can’t deny you access-we’re about to show you how.
