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Old 12-29-2009, 01:51 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by daffy4u View Post
They did that once only. Now tell the rest of the story of the apology and compensation.
The fact is that they HAVE done it once, and even if they went and apologized afterwards, they still have access to my device (or rather, the device which I've leased from them) and to the library I have on the device. They have shown the ability to access that library remotely and to delete files remotely. Even Control-Freak-Apple-Computer has refrained from actually employing the killswitches they've implemented in App Store programs and have settled for removing the programs from the App Store's storefront rather than going onto devices to remote-kill the software.

And THAT is what is making me wary - they have the ability, and they've done so once. I don't trust them NOT to do it again, and perhaps to titles which they have no 'rights' to pull (eg: if I have a title from Project Gutenberg sideloaded onto a Kindle which is also available as a for-sale version in Amazon's Kindle Store, they theoretically could pull the sideloaded book off my device with a message telling me to go buy the book instead for $9.99 even if it's a public domain title).

They've said they wouldn't do it again... but it's their unsupported word (there are no legal strictures to bind them to it, or even a written contract which says they can't go and do it again) versus their past actions. I'll consider their past actions to have greater weight than a press release after the fact. Yes, they explained what happened AFTER the fact - but they did basically shoot first, and only after people started complaining did they bother to explain WHY they did it.

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Originally Posted by daffy4u View Post
The nook latest Sony have Wi-Fi and new to it, so they didn't have the ability until now. Let's hope they have learned from Amazon's mistake but if you're going to be paranoid, keep your trigger ready.
The nook and Sony's Wi-Fi allow an unknown level of access - with the nook and presumably the new PRS-900, it allows authentication of the book remotely with the ePub DRM system; but they've yet to demonstrate that they have the ability to delete books remotely versus just deauthorizing them so the file's still on the ebook reader but inaccessible.
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