Thread: Ethics and legalities of format shifting
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Old 01-03-2021, 02:17 PM   #127
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Originally Posted by Sirtel View Post
The servers will be needed if the app stops working and I need to install and register it again. As actually happens pretty often with both Kindle and Kobo apps. And I can do nothing to ensure the apps won't stop working. That's out of my hands. Now my device may still be in pristine condition, but if the app stops working and the owner of the app is no longer in business, then I'll be screwed. Through no fault or lack of responsibility of my own.
This actually just happened to me with the Kindle for PC software! They did an update which downloaded automatically and then didn't work. Do you think I was going to just sit there and not have access to my books? Hell no! I deleted the useless software, downloaded an old version of the software that allowed me to redownload all of my books. But now I have the control to disinfect them, format shift them and put on all of my devices as epubs. And I'm now insured against more faulty software being downloaded to to mess up my access to my BOOKS!

I don't give a rats ass if the publisher call it a "license", if I'm paying $8.00 for a license that comes in the form of a ebook, then I'm going to make damn sure that license is PERMANANTLY secured for my use in however I see fit that doesn't involve selling, sharing, uploading elsewhere. I never shared my paperbooks, so I'm not inclined to do so with electronic files.
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