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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Jesus you people are beyond paranoid.
Would you please explain exactly how this THEORY would work? Even if they removed it from my device, they can't remove it from my pc, as well as being backed up on a seperate HD & a microchip.
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Some people don't archive books on hard drives. (I think of that as foolish. However, "foolish" doesn't mean "it's okay for stores to screw them over and delete their purchases.") Also, if they remove it from the reader once, they can do so again. They can make it impossible to read that book on the device. (I grant this is not particularly likely.)
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Unless I'm logged into their store how are they going to access my books? The most they could do is remove it from my account online, but since it is still on my pc it doesn't matter.
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If the device has wireless, they might be able to remove it from the device at any time.
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Adobe isn't a bookseller, and for Sony, or any other store to remove books that I haven't bought from THEM would be STEALING!
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They could claim the books were copyright infringements. Sony could claim it has the exclusive right to distribute <somebooktitle> and therefore any unauthorized copies of it are infringement.
This is, indeed, stealing. But so was Amazon's removal of books people had bought from their store. (If I buy a book from Waldenbooks, and they discover that publisher was illegally printing them, they don't get to break into my house to remove my copy.) Amazon got sued for removing 1894.... but not for removing the earlier copies of Rand's books and Rowling's books, despite the legal situation being the same.
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And after the uproar over what Amazon did, I don't think any of them would be stupid enough to do something like it again.
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No, we're pretty sure they'll find *new* ways to be stupid. And I can understand people not wanting to play guinea pig for corporate blunders, which, if they're leaving an open wifi connection between themselves and the company, they are.
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When Fictionwise & others lost the Agency 5, you all were in an uproar since a good chunk of books disappeared & you lost them. But it was your own fault since you didn't bother downloading them right away. I had no loss since I always download what I buy right after I buy it.
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You go back and forth between saying "you can trust the companies; they won't do anything stupid, illegal & harmful to your ebook reading," and "if you take the precautions I took, you won't be damaged." Some people want to take *different* precautions--like not giving the company access to their important data in the first place.
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There are always ways to protect yourself without having to either do things illegally or create a whole bunch of work for yourself (stripping DRM) to accomplish what you want.
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And that's what's being sought here: Legal methods to avoid corporate interference with reading habits, by choosing a device that ebook stores can't interfere with.