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Old 10-15-2019, 02:04 AM   #210
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
As I said, I do not believe that is correct. Books downloaded directly to the device or apps come from Kobo's servers. And don't use Adobe DRM. Hence, for all the people out there that buy from Kobo and download directly to the device, I do not believe that Adobe has any knowledge of these books.
Maybe this is no longer relevant, but several years ago version 4 of ADE did scan all titles loaded on a device, without regard to origin or DRM, and uploaded the data to Adobe's servers. Initially Adobe denied this behavior but testing by both Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-...in-plain-text/
and the EFF https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/1...-e-reader-mess
confirmed Adobe was not telling the truth. Soon afterwards, Adobe claimed it was a "bug" and released 4.0.1 which changed the behavior. The EFF confirmed the new release had solved the problem, at least for the time being.

But, as a result, I think some people still question Adobe's honesty about revealing what their software really does.
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