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Originally Posted by shalym
I guess my point is more, why would information on a book that never had DRM need to be sent to Adobe? If they want to scan their library, fine...I get that. The program obviously needs to know what is in it's library in order to function. The program does NOT, however, need to send that information back to the mother ship if there is no Adobe DRM applied to the book. I wonder what I would find if I installed ADE 4 on my computer? Technically it shouldn't send ANY data back to Adobe since I have never purchased a book that used Adobe DRM.
Shari
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If, as they say, this is part of a larger, long term plan to combat piracy[1], it becomes an important question of whether an ebook that does not have DRM on it now started out that way. And whether or not they can tell. Sending information about ebooks without DRM could easily be about trying to figure out how many are being stripped of it.
[1]A hopeless cause, to be sure, as the music industry proved.