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Originally Posted by kos25k
Ohh! ��Not even close..I just make a collection from pdf and doc files that regard survival guides in general.Yeah,we live in weird times of history!!But even if someone did this,its clearly his own issue what to do with these files. Otherwise amazon just wouldn't this otg feature on her e-readers or these otg cables wouldn't be legal etc..
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What a weird reasoning... There are legitimate uses of scalpels (not to name firearms which is a controversial topic). That does not mean that you are allowed to use them to stab people, or to talk about it in a forum, just to make an example... and vice-versa, the fact that a scalpel can be used to stab people does not make it illegal tout-court.
It's not "his own issue" what to do with pirated content. Responsible forum like MR do not support criminal acts (as sharing copyrighted content, by law is) and that's the reason why such kind of discussions are not allowed.
Finally, regarding "Amazon wouldn't [missing word... was it "implement"?] this on its e-readers or these otg cables wouldn't be legal": first, there are a lot of legit uses for otg cables, not all data transfer is illegal (or any data cable would be banned), secondarily:
Amazon didn't do anything on its Kindles.
As many have already explained, OTG has nothing to do with the Kindle. OTG is
on the phone. Kindle don't even notice, it "thinks" it is connected to a computer, and like it happens for a computer, it simply exports its public filesystem, that's it.
Why it does so? For users to be able to sideload content that they have previously legitimately downloaded from their store, that's it; Amazon allows this because (historically) not everybody and everywhere had easy access to a wireless connection to transfer directly (first Kindle models didn't even have wifi).
(By the way, rumours are that now that wifi is much much more generally available Amazon is going to remove the option to sideload content... only rumours for now)