Quote:
Originally Posted by skypilotpete
I live in Australia, have a Sony e-reader, and have been continually frustrated by how few books are available to me. Like many others, I have bitten the bullet and worked out how to strip DRM from Amazon ebooks, so I can buy them and convert to Epub using Calibre. Now I am faced with the question of whether it is safe for me to share these converted ebooks with friends - as I would feel entitled to do with any other book that I purchased. I am aware that once I give a converted ebook to anyone else, what happens to it then is out of my hands. I would like to be sure that there isn't some hidden metadata remaining within a converted ebook that would allow Amazon to identify me as the original purchaser if one of my ebooks ends up on a news group or torrent site. I will certainly ask my friends not to do this, but I can't guarantee that it won't happen. Can anyone tell me if I could be identified from something within an un-drm'd, converted file?
|
Well this is funny. You were asked by the copyright owners not to copy and distribute the file to someone else. Now this is just what you want to do and now you are wondering if your ""friends" from the torrent site won't do it if ask to...
Well, yes, that's a good one. You may consider regular postings in the joke-of-the-day-section.
Apart from that, as far as I understood the buyer information is not removed when stripping. Why should it. The stripping plugins were created for personal use only, not for law breaking purposes.