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Amazon accused of 'Big-Brother behaviour' after deleting 1984

From Thursday, customers on Amazon's web forums said copies of the British author's dystopian classics "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four" were mysteriously wiped from their Kindle devices.

The online retailer later told CNET the books were uploaded by a publisher who did not have reproduction rights and so they were deleted.

"We removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers' devices, and refunded customers," a spokesman, Drew Herdener, said.

The move drew unfavourable comparisons to events in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four", in which documents unfavourable to a fictional authoritarian government are dropped into a "memory hole," to be erased forever...
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