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Originally Posted by Sirtel
What about legally purchased and sideloaded books? Purchased elsewhere, I mean.
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Well as long as we are remaining in the fantasy land where I can predict the future it goes like this....
You buy your new super duper Kindle for its amazing introductory price. On startup it insists on you loading information about yourself. All your old books load no problems. You open a side loaded book and it reads good. bout 2/3 way through it recognises the book as one it has a protection deal with the publisher. At that point it checks for a licence number in the books header and compares with the data you loaded. If they don't match it asks for proof of purchase.
Oh. And your kindle will insist on calling home on the net every time it can and will do something horrid if there are too many kindle devices with the same personal data or the headers are faked.
Nothing really amazing bout this. It's the same tricks used to protect software. The only difference is software can be protected on any device as long as it insists on calling home to function. An ebook can only be protected on a device with protection built in.