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Originally Posted by Wario
The other side of the coin, Amazon could of given the detail of every Kindle owner who downloaded the ebook in question to the police, and let them entre people home and take away their kindles as evidence of the end user illegal ebook's.
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Although Wario wrote the above in "jest," he does raise an interesting question. Could the Department of Homeland Security, NSA, the CIA, or the FBI obtain information about Kindle owners through Amazon? The telecoms were used to ferret out terrorists (at least that was the premise for doing the snooping), so why not Amazon to determine who is reading/buying subversive literature?
Or perhaps the book publishers can form their own RIAA-type organization and purchase inspection rights from Amazon. Once they surrepitiously discover that someone has an illegal book on their Kindle, they can seize the Kindle as evidence and sue civilly for damages and press prosecutors to cleanse the country of malcontents and misfits. A revival of the Palmer Raids and HUAC, all rolled into one!
Then, of course, should we develop our own religion police force, Amazon, in a burst of patriotism, could simply turn over names and addresses of those needing correction.