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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
So we should just accept anything?
Sorry but I don't expect to have to prove my honesty when I want to buy something.
Innocent until proven guilty, don't the that seams familiar?
Just like when you enter a shop and they insist you shouldn't take your bag in.
As a customer, others stealing isn't my problem. I never said no one stole. I just don't care. I shouldn't suffer any consequences of others actions. I shouldn't see my product's quality affected by that, or my shopping experience.
I'm no thief, I don't expect to be treated so until I've actually done something to deserve that.
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You have a very odd definition of "everything". And I maintain that product vendors of all types, e/book or otherwise, have every right to take reasonable precautions that assume anyone *can* be a thief.
No one is assuming you *are* a thief, if that were true, you'd've been dragged off to jail on the off chance you are stealing books.
People are assuming you *can* be a thief, because... it is true.
Anyone *can* be a thief. This very simple fact underlies a great deal of the way the world works.
Take that serial number.
It can certainly be used to uniquely identify an object.
That object may or may not have been purchased with an account traceable to you.
Solution: if you are one of the paranoid nuts who obsesses about your secrecy, we get them all the time and I am totally all right with that, just so long as you are honest about it. Nothing wrong with someone living up to their values.
Some people have good reasons, e.g. living in oppressive countries. Also, I hope you uphold that mandate of privacy in all areas of your digital life -- for example, do you browse using the Tor network? Do you use full-disk encryption on your computer? Do you encrypt all your email?
Use non-identifying information to create your ebookstore account, and you cannot be traced.
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pdurrant, yep
I think we discussed this already, re: Harry Potter. I had to edit my copy to suit.