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Originally Posted by bhaak
And in your opinion what would be the way that could lead to putting the sick dog to sleep?
To follow up on your analogy, no, I don't constantly watch my speed in fear of crossing the speed limit. Because where I'm driving, there is no speed limit!
I find it much more worrisome that other posters in this thread don't connect their device to WiFi because of what Amazon could possibly do with it. With their OWN device that they really OWN. Which Amazon doesn't even deny (whereas you don't own "your" ebooks, you only have a license) but still do things that could very well be illegal under many computer hacking and unauthorized access laws (IANAL but I don't think you can make any action legal with their license agreement).
Lynn's case didn't look like a "last resort" action. More like a kafkaesque "collateral damage". Sorry, it's naive to think that a single customer (regardless of how much you're paying from them) is valuable to a multi-gazillion company. If you happen to somehow meet their "close this account" criteria, your account will be closed. It won't matter what strange and coincidental circumstances led them to think that you did.
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The DRM dog will die a natural death and be replaced by watermarks sooner or later as more and more people wake up and run into problems (cases like this or people switching devices).
The license says so --- but in most places it is actually legal to make a copy for personal backup. Some rights you cannot just sign away, DRM removal hasn't really been tested in court in most countries. So the most they can do is stop selling to me.
As for the case in question --- we really know very little and I reserve judgement. I am not about to unilaterally declare Amazon at fault just because somebody I know zilch about publishes this accusation.