Google Play bug [LWN.net]

Google Play bug

Posted Aug 30, 2013 11:57 UTC (Fri) by erwbgy (subscriber, #4104)
Parent article: Calibrating Calibre 1.0

Apparently the Google Play issue was due to a bug - from Gizmodo:

Update: Google has reached out to use to explain that this is not normal or intended behavior for the Google Books app, but instead the result of a bug. Google Play stores will not allow additional purchases while in territories where they do not operate, but this active removal of content was apparently an isolated issue unrelated to normal Google Books DRM behavior.

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Google Play bug

Posted Aug 31, 2013 12:26 UTC (Sat) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848) [Link]

Still a pretty severe bug though, that I can't imagine happening with software which hadn't been written with DRM in mind. I've never seen a music playing program decide it would delete all of its music library after an update (though saying that, I suppose it wouldn't suprise me if I heard of something DRM loving like iTunes doing that).

Google Play bug

Posted Aug 31, 2013 19:10 UTC (Sat) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I have seen programs try to sync something with nothing and end up with nothing which is a frustrating bug