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Originally Posted by 6charlong
Unless they were responding to a court order. I was thinking about the situation in the US when the Bush Administration demanded a list of who borrowed certain books from libraries throughout America.
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I'm not sure that's exactly what happened, but even if it did, that's at least plausibly a national security issue.
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Or a search comparing the copyrighted books on our Kindles against the books we bought from Amazon, since Amazon is the only place you can get AZW encrypted books.
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This wouldn't be a national security issue and the government couldn't simply demand the information from Amazon. They would need a search warrant for a specific person's Kindle.
Even though Amazon might be the only place you can get .azw books, there are plenty of other in-copyright books you can get without DRM. I have a bunch of Fictionwise multiformat books -- perfectly legal.
And if there's an unencrypted book that's only available in an encrypted format, it still doesn't mean you didn't get it legally. Look at all the people who strip DRM just to change from Sony to Kindle, for example. Could the government come after you for stripping the DRM when there's no copyright violation involved? I guess. But I don't think it's particularly likely.