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Originally Posted by 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.
That is why I only PAY for my eBooks and store NOTHING in the Cloud of any sort.
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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.
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Both of those first two paragraphs post cannot be true. Legally bought books are always stored in the cloud. Sometimes it's a download page to bookmark and sometimes they're saved to the purchasing account, but they are always stored in the cloud. The only way to not have ebooks stored in the cloud is to pirate.
If you want to not depend on cloud storage of your ebooks and the continued existence of the business selling you books, then buying DRM-free, removing DRM or pirating are the only options. If Amazon goes down, your Kindle won't be able to buy books from another service. Ditto for getting your account locked out.