Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 07:55 PM EDT |
If you don't have it networked, how would you know when they
want to you to? Of course, by email! "Please connect your
Kindle to the network so we can "upgrade" your device for
an improved user experience."
Poof!
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 08:20 PM EDT |
Wiping a kindle leaves plenty of evidence for court later, you most likely have
reciepts and credit card bills showing you purchasing the e-books, and the
kindle probably isn't zeroed out where you actually erase all the data but
simply had the file handles removed, in which case it is relatively simple to
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Authored by: kuroshima on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 02:24 AM EDT |
Get your Kindle from a brick and mortar store, I hear you
can still do that. Pay with cash. Never link it to your
Amazon account. Never turn Wifi on, and never give it your
wifi password. Use Calibre to manage your ebook library. Buy
your books from Baen, Smashwords and other ethical stores
that refuse to use DRM. You now have a great piece of
hardware that was extremely cheap and performs extremely
well. Optionally backup your Calibre library using your own
NAS and/or a cloud provider that uses customer supplied
encryption.
The fact that Amazon produces good hardware and sells it at
cost does not mean that you need to buy in their ecosystem. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 10:36 AM EDT |
"The new Bluray keys only make old ones invalid to play new content. DVDs
and BDs have a hardware key. Locking it out by software would cause a pile of
discs so huge on the Whitehouse lawn that the problem would be fixed
pronto."
What about the situation currently being considered in the US that the first
sale may NOT allow the purchaser ownership of the thing (software, book, etc.)
purchased and it still is under control of the copyright holder?
Talk about a pile. ;)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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