Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
There's some serious paranoia going on here. As stated, eReader have been using CC tagging of books for many, many years, and the sky has not fallen as a result. Do you SERIOUSLY believe that if you lose your eBook reader, someone's going to take the trouble to upload all the books from it onto torrent sites? Can you give me ONE example of that having happened, ever, to one single person?
|
Well, telling me what eReader does or doesn't do doesn't really matter to me because I don't buy from them. Never will, if they like to embed personal data in their book like you're claiming. Yay, free market.
You're misunderstanding me. Do I fear someone will retrieve my books off of my reader, upload them to torrent, and I'll get a visit from the FBI? Probably not. Possible, but not likely.
Do I imagine that someone could retrieve my books off my reader, and run a quick program to extract the personal data that Rowling Inc or eReader or whoever embedded into the files? Sure, why not? Even easier to spot a target when the readers can be spotted a mile off with the acid-etched Hermione on the back of the reader.
Furthermore, you seem to be forgetting that any personal data contained in these books will be streamed over WiFi networks and 3G. Yeah, I'm not going to sign up for that.
So I'm paranoid about my personal data? Good. I've had my identity stolen before from someone
dumpster diving behind a gas station -- strange things happen. Stealing a laptop (or an eReader, eventually) to take an identity happens more frequently than you seem to think.
I take exception furthermore to the implication that only thieves care about disinfecting their ebook files. I thought we were, ah, above that here.
