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Originally Posted by Yapyap
They cannot use DRM removal tools on those books even if they wanted to. They can only use DRM removal tools on books they have personally bought / personally legitimately acquired.
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Here is the typical scenario:
1. The "collector" buys 10 eBooks from Amazon.
2. The "collector" uses the Alf Plugin for Calibre to strip the DRM from those 10 eBooks.
3. The "collector" then goes to a bit Torrent site and uses those 10 stripped eBooks as his starter upload contribution and ends up with 40,000 eBooks.
4. Then Calibre is used to organize that "Collection" since it is too large to control manually.
The legitimate buyer relies on Amazon to maintain a large collection of millions of eBooks and just buys one or two at a time to actually read those eBooks. Since the legitimate buyer rarely has collections that large, no Collecting software other than the one supplied by Amazon is really necessary.
The situation is way out of control and the authors, publishers and retailers need some solution to prevent these huge violations of copyright laws.
Instead of using the courts, there is one more way Amazon could stop all this. They already are allowed access to a customer's eBooks whenever they are synced to their servers. That sync could allow Amazon to determine if any DRM stripped eBooks are on the customer's disks. If they find any, they could simply block that particular customer's account rendering all readers purchased from them as useless. Apple and Kobo probably have the same ability and, if the three sellers coordinated, copyright theft could be severely impeded.
All three of those sellers already "push" software upgrades to their customers. That "push" could also be used to detect eBook files not properly purchased on those eReaders. Inserting license numbers in the metadata, like Amazon does now with song files, could ease the detection process.
There was a case several years ago whereby one eBook being sold by Amazon was determined to be not available since the publisher never authorized Amazon to sell it. Amazon then deleted that eBook from ALL their customer devices without notice to the customers. That event demonstrates their level of control if required to use it.