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Originally Posted by EndStop
I am talking about firmware in the kindle that will detect copyright material and react. You could load a pirated copy but it will just do a text compare with samples from a large selection of Amazon's better sellers. The processing power and storage involved is feasible.
The sting would be to not simply deny access to a pirated book but to do it in the most irritating way possible. I have heard of ideas for slowly removing features from pirated games on the same principle.
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That would require always-on connectivity and at the very least inspire privacy concerns (of course, if you were privacy conscious, you wouldn't be using a Kindle anyway), impact battery life and system responsiveness.
People would just load alternative firmware or buy different devices. The majority of my devices are format agnostic.