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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
So - although personally I think the odds of Amazon looking at my account for books with DRM removed are low, if the law and/or political mood would change, I don't want to count of the removal of the books from the Amazon cloud as being effective, since that "stuff" remains forever.
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Excellent point. Let's pretend this technology was developed in the 1910s instead of today. Senator Joseph McCarthy would certainly be interested in getting a hold of these electronic databases years later. "So you read the communist manifesto back in 1915 and highlighted such and such passages and made these notes." Do we think that our advanced technology makes us immune from the fear-mongering of politicians? Some of the things after 9/11 and leading up to and shortly after the Iraq war got kind of scary. We know that the European countries undergoing fiscal crisis and strain right now have an electorate moving to more
extreme political parties including neo-nazis. Imagine the election of a extreme far right religious candidate in a country economically devastated or hit by with a big terrorist attack again. Better hope you don't have Richard Dawkins on your reading list either or books from any other religion.