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Originally Posted by Laura81
^ Well if breaking the law means being able to keep the books I've already paid for rather than possibly lose them, I may have to look into it. Not being snarky, just saying. I get what you mean now though that if the only place you have your books is on Kindle you would lose them but if you've downloaded them to your computer, even if you haven't stripped DRM and converted them, they can't take them off your computer.
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Totally. I doubt there is a significant portion of media users of any stripe (music, movies, games, ebooks...) who haven't broken the law. It's almost impossible to avoid, if you simply want to be able to use your content the way you want to. I'm just making the point that if you want to actually own your content, they pretty much force you to break the law, and there's something wrong with that.
This is true, they can't. But what I'm saying is, at the very least, you should never rely on their cloud system or their DRM licenses. And ideally, you should have content in a universal format that you can take with you, and a device that can read it. If you don't, you're running risks with your content. Some of those risks may be smaller than others (i.e. in the short-to-mid-term, it is more likely a DRM company will go down than it is that Kindle will go down), but it's still a risk, and you deserve full ownership of the things you pay for without it being subject to the whimsy of a corporation's finances or moods.