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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Most companies don't store customer CC# information indefinitely because they aren't intending to use it to track you down years and years from now if the copy you bought gets pirated.
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A verified name and address is far more useful to them for this purpose. It's easy to filter out and disallow chargecards that aren't associated with verified personal information.
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My other concern is that they will keep my CC# in a database forever, which presents hacking concerns of a different variety. To my knowledge, Kobo does neither of these things.
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Kobo certainly
does keep your credit card number on-file. As does Amazon, as does Apple, as do a lot of online retailers.
If your concern about security is genuine then your only option is not to shop online
at all. But frankly, I think this is nothing more than a straw-man.
DRM is obnoxious because it endangers the property rights of the purchaser - you're restricted from enjoying your purchase in the manner of your choice, you can't (responsibly) lend it to others, and when the central servers go down you're deprived of it entirely. Watermarking has none of these problems and when used on film screeners has
proven success in restricting the flow of material to file-sharing sites. Ditching DRM and moving to watermarked open-format ebooks would benefit both producers and consumers immensely.