[sirmaru]

There is even a worse danger to storing, uploading and downloading formerly protected eBooks in the Cloud. Our NSA now tracks the entire cloud. They are trustworthy but a ROGUE employee of theirs could steal it all and then sell those identifiable files for money.

Recently our NSA did have a rogue employee take off to Russia. He may have all the data which could expose the entire universe of those files including Usenet and Bit Torrent sites.

That is why I only PAY for my eBooks and store NOTHING in the Cloud of any sort.

Of course NSA records all our Amazon activity and our posts here as well.

When the "free" music scandal broke in 2002, thousands of subpoenas went out to folks who never believed it possible that cracking the DRM on a few songs would land them in that kind of trouble. Plus, no one believed that cracking the DRM on a single song would bring in a subpoena from supposedly anonymous sites. Its just too dangerous to crack DRM even though it appears harmless.

Remember, when we buy an eBook, we only own the LICENSE to read that eBook; we do NOT own the file. If we purchased that file from Amazon and violate their customer service agreement in any way, they have the right to remove that file. If we backed it up and removed the DRM to defeat the agreement, it could be big trouble ahead.