Thread: Buying unprotected EPUB ebooks? Or good text-to-speech?
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Old 04-23-2011, 03:20 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker View Post
I can easily see the following scenario: Some Amazon script gets, from each Kindle, a list of all books and their DRM status. It then compares the DRM status with that of the books when bought from Amazon. If it finds one that has been de-DRM'd, it outputs an automatic letter, contents of your choice, to be sent off to the person in question.
Whether the book you are reading has DRM or not is one of the things that the Kindle logs and sends to Amazon the next time you go online. So they would already have that information ready and waiting for whenever some publisher or other requests it.

Since Amazon would only be assisting in the detection and prevention of crime (in countries where DRM removal is illegal), there would be no media outcry over it. Anything that puts the copyright enforcement industry in a bad light is always ignored by mainstream media anyway.
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