Thread: Touch A Couple of Questions about the Nook STR (DRM and Backup)
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Old 09-20-2011, 08:10 PM   #3
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3. The DRM makes me nervous, because apparently it's tied to the user's CC number (and billing address?). Couldn't that mean that a lost/stolen Nook be used by a hacker to reverse engineer the ebooks to find out this information?
The CC number is not stored on the device, some unique data is used to identify you with the servers.

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4. What's the process for backing up B&N purchased content using a PC/Mac? I'm guessing the DRM makes it so one can't just throw the files on an external drive and be done with it?
The simplest way is to download the books from B&N's website and then make your own backup (I would recommend Dropbox or something similar, so if you hard drive dies, you can recover your files.
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