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Originally Posted by Sregener
Yet. The day will come when the publishers insist that being able to examine the content of hard drives is necessary to enforce their copyright and some lawyer will create a compelling enough case that a technologically-ignorant judge will grant it.
If the government can already examine many aspects of your life without your permission and without a legitimate court order (kangaroo courts need not apply), what makes you think your hard drive is sacred?
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Nothing is sacred perhaps
If someone wanted to they could pretty well find out anything about anybody, even without the internet.
Finding something on my hard drive, would just require them getting a warrant, which if someone wanted to do badly enough I am sure that they could.
But Amazon could not arbitrarily delete my backups from my hard drive(s) using the internet. They could if I had just one backup and it was attached to an internet enabled computer. Not the case for many people.
And some would find it a little hard to believe that a monkey even has a hard drive, so his should be doubly safe.
Helen