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Originally Posted by bigtext
Would Amazon be interested in this from the perspective that they expect customers to buy ebooks from them in order to make up for selling their hardware below cost?
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My guess, and it is no more than that, is that Amazon does not scan my Kindle to find out what is on it for reasons of legal liability. Suppose they have in their database the fact that someone has child pornography, and didn't do anything about it. Could lead to liability. In other countries, there might be laws against bombmaking books, or Nazi books. The easiest response to a court order to find out what is on a customer's Kindle would be to truthfully say that they don't know, and don't have software in hand designed to do that job.
Of course, even if they don't keep a database of all my books and articles today, that could change. The question of whether to go after pirates who store their booty on their Kindle has to be one that gets revisited from time to time.