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I fail to see any connection whatsoever between ereader privacy and prohibited copying of ebooks.
No Ereader provider is checking the sideloaded book validity and then calling cops on you if something's amiss. The only phase when you can get caught by law enforcement is when initially downloading the digital copies.
A person who tries to download prohibited digital ebook copies would protect his privacy before and during the actual download time on the PC. Not afterwards and the least in the ereader itself.
It's not like police is going to routinely check your ereader's books to see if they're procured in lawful manner lol.
And I totally understand those who don't care about practicing privacy protection. When your information is already submitted everywhere, you have little motivation to believe in protecting that which you do not have. And when you are invested into an ecosystem, you will fight to protect it and your habits. This is completely normal, we're just on different sides of the fence. Nothing wrong with either side in my opinion.
That being said, I admit that ereader privacy concerns are mostly useless. The devices have no microphone or camera and most don't have decent internet accesibility for you to leave useful footprints around.
But to me it is a matter of principle and preference as well as just me feeling good when I can feel that I own the device and I don't owe it even a fake email to use it, nor have to think too much about what it might be doing behind my back.
Of course there are real issues as well, such as that blunder when Amazon remotely deleted user's Orwell (and other) books. Needless to say this can make privacy conscious people reluctant to use such devices. I want to own not just my ereader but also ebooks on it, however procured they are. Because of this, personally I enjoy devices where I'm the sole controller and can simply sideload the books instead of some software dictating the rules. I think in the end maybe the pocketbook is a good choice for me. Sadly their build quality doesn't appear to be the best.
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