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Originally Posted by sirmaru
Those examples could be copied by Amazon which could now start an eBook rental service where one could pay a monthly or annual fee and then rent all their eBooks for reading at one or two per month. The rented files could have expiration dates for self destruction, thus, eliminating all chances of being pirated.
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There are at least three such services already — Scribd, Oyster and Entitle.
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Originally Posted by sirmaru
I have a strong hunch that pirate eBook sites are the sources for many who collect thousands of eBooks without reading most of them. Then Calibre would be necessary to insert the missing metadata.
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You also claim that DRM-removal leads to the pirating of books. If that was so, then the available pirate books for download would already contain all the metadata.
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Originally Posted by sirmaru
Thus, today with millions of eBooks being downloaded from pirate sites REQUIRES Calibre to insert metadata and Apprentice Alf to strip DRM in the same way that Media Monkey was once required for music. Today those downloading music from pirate sites still need Media Monkey since they may be missing most of the metadata.
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No-one downloading pirated material needs Alf's tools, as they only work for the people who actually bought the books. And as stated before, IF pirated ebooks were from commercial ebooks with the DRM removed, they would still contain all their metadata.
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Originally Posted by sirmaru
Thus, I don't have the same needs as other who get their songs and eBooks without any metadata and with possible DRM still loaded.
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Pirated ebooks with DRM still on them are useless to the the people downloading them. No-one needs calibre to add metadata to pirated ebooks, because pirated ebooks would still have all their metadata present.
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Originally Posted by sirmaru
By the way, no one should get angry about all these issues.
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I only get exasperated that you get so many things wrong in a single post.
People use calibre for a wide variety of reasons. I use it to keep track of my ebooks, and fix up the metadata (since publishers don't always get this right!), and do conversions between formats. And, thanks to Alf, to strip the pesky DRM.
This all has nothing to do with piracy of ebooks, or needing to add metatdata to pirated ebooks.