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Originally Posted by sealbeater
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.
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Do the maths. A 10k text fingerprint should do and although there are millions of Ebooks out there I would guess that a careful selection of 100,000 should be suficient to leave big holes in any pirates library. Thats 1GB and peanuts with todays storage. Less than peanuts for tomorows. So a device could hold fingerprints without always being conected. In fact it would have to. 1GB is not much to store but significant for background downloading. The fingerprints could only be updated slowly.