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A book doesn't have to have had DRM in order to be in the ADE library. It just has to have been opened by ADE at some point in the past.
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"Hoffelder claimed Digital Editions 4 slurped and leaked the metadata of all the ebooks on his system – not just the ones read using the application. Adobe said this shouldn't [be] possible, but has its developers checking again to make sure this isn't a bug." Quote:
If "[i]t has been speculated . . . that ADE 4 looks for Calibre plugins and/or DRM-free ebooks in its library to see if the user has removed DRM from commercial ebooks," then I haven't seen corroboration outside of Nate's article. Perhaps you'd be kind enough to link to an example or two. It's a question not of an individual journalist's credibility but of being able to repeat the reported behavior to judge whether it is a problem for others. That said, by siphoning and sending unencrypted data that surveys users' libraries and sums page turns within a single book, Adobe seems to be trespassing in ways in which other companies (cf. Amazon and Apple) do not. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 10-09-2014 at 09:00 AM. |
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10-09-2014, 08:53 AM | #143 | |
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Folks are trying to replicate/explain the behavior. But most are working with clean installs. Nate's experience was on a production system, not a testbed. Hence the speculation. And the cautions. If it is a bug it is one that only shows up in (rare?) real world scenarios. |
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Actually, that might be incorrect. When you open an ePub that is not in ADE's library, ADE will as you if you want to copy it to your ADE library when you exit ADE with that eBook open. You can click cancel and the ePub will not be added to ADE's library. This is how it works with ADE 2 unless it's changed with ADE 4.
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Well Nate certainly got some attention. It would be nice to see (outside of his comment section) a follow up describing efforts to reproduce the phenomenon of data being sent on books stored outside ADE.
As fjtorres suggests, maybe it happens on "production systems" instead of clean installs, but maybe Nate just doesn't remember accidentally opening the books with ADE at some point long ago, presumably by accident (I know I have done this) |
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But consider that the thing doesn't just send the data for the book being read (as Amazon and others do) but for every book ever read, every time. And if it was solely for sync and activation, why mention piracy at all? Over at TechDirt they've been parsing the Adobe party line and not getting the warm and fuzzies: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...r-ebooks.shtml They are fairly certain they are violating several state laws, including California's, just with what they admit. |
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Are B&N LendMe ebooks stored in My Digital Editions? Last edited by Froide; 10-09-2014 at 10:38 AM. |
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