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Originally Posted by Katsunami
What you are saying is this:
- A person is suspected of crime X, and authorities are searching for evidence toward that crime.
- Damn. We can't find any. But hey... We found some e-books, for which that person has no e-mail receipt. Great! If we can't bust him for crime X, then we just charge him with the crime of stealing e-books!
As far as I know, that is not allowed, but IANAL.
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It happens all the time that way in America. Folks are stopped for speeding on the highway. Illegal drugs are found in their cars and they get sent to prison for 10 years.
Other folks have their PC's confiscated for a suspected tax evasion violation. Pornography is found on their hard disks and they only get prosecuted for the possession of pornography.
I am pretty sure that the Amazon insertion of those 9 digit numbers in the metadata of the song files has something to do with similar enforcement actions at some time in the future. That practice definitely points to a similar process for eBooks sometime in the future.
Its obvious that the Alf plugin for Calibre has made the present DRM scheme OBSOLETE.
By the way, US laws are not affected by the European Court of Justice opinion.