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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Whether it is the intention or not, it can have that effect.
If you have 'bought' a book from Google and it is stored by Google, they can simply choose to remove your access to it. Amazon have remotely deleted a book from Kindles, Fictionwise no longer allow redownloads of some titles that were previously available, as they are now covered by geo-restrictions that did not exist previously, and so on.
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But DRM and cloud-computing are separate issues. The Kindle rights being pulled had nothing to do with cloud computing. If you push more content into the cloud, sure it can disappear or rights can be pulled, and same for content downloaded but local-resident.
I just don't see the conspiracy around cloud-computing and DRM being tied together.