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Sony is going to *install* wireless access in my PRS-505? How? The hardware's not there; it doesn't have web access at all. (Also has no web software, but that, I suppose, could be inserted somehow.) Sony doesn't make 505s any more. While they're at it, will they add wireless to my husband's PRS-300, also no longer supported?
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I do believe your two Sony Models connect to a Computer through USB and are able to use Abode Digital Edition, If I am correct. Your identity would be confirmed through your connecting computer to the Cloud and therefore, you can upload to your device through USB.
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Not my problem. Plenty of content providers are willing to sell, not license, their products, and plenty more are willing to provide me free information & entertainment. Content providers who want my dollars can figure out how to provide me something I can use with the hardware I prefer.
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That is where the interests of the customer and the content provider conflict. Legally, when you buy content, you own the physical property of it; e.g.: The paper of a book, the DVD on which the movie is printed on, but not the Intellectual property (IP). This is why you have a FBI (Interpol) warning before each movie, the expression "All Rights Reserved" written with. the ISBN and printing information of a book. IP is not govern by private property laws but by a subset of Constitutional law, called Copyright laws. It did not used to be a big deal before the event of mass digital distribution. By in this day and age, it already is a BIG deal (think DRM, MP3s and the RIAA, torrents and the MPAA) and will be so for a while at least.
I see that you are American, here is the Wikipedia link to US
Copyright laws
Yes, I see and understand your frustration, and yes, I hope that content providers WILL recognized that demographic that are happy with what they have, but I doubt it. Consider how we were pushed to go from VHS to DVD, cassettes to CD.