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Originally Posted by Tar
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...
It's not like police is going to routinely check your ereader's books to see if they're procured in lawful manner lol.
...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 accessibility for you to leave useful footprints around.
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Hey, everything there is perfectly understandable. I can understand the desire for privacy. Though being worried/annoyed about using a fake email address seems ludicrous to me.
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Originally Posted by Tar
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.
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Even when you already know that 'what it might be doing behind your back' is nothing? You already admit 'The devices have no microphone or camera and most don't have decent internet accessibility for you to leave useful footprints around' and if you turn off WiFi, what mysterious spy technology is it using to send information anywhere?
In the end, none of that really matters to me. I feel differently than you, but I'm also a fan of
letting your freak flag fly.
What I don't support is illegally downloading works. Not because I am so worried about the health of some megacorp. But because the author whose work you enjoy is receiving no remuneration from you.
Spin it all you want, but most authors make no decent amount of money off of their work at the best of times. Swiping their work for free just exacerbates the problem.
If you can't find a way you feel comfortable obtaining digital books in some sort of above the board manner, maybe digital books just aren't for you.