Jordan Lopez Can We Read What We Want?

Adobe Tracking Reading Habits User ID Finding out who you are Device ID For DRM control Certified App ID More DRM control Device IP Address Your location

Digital Editions 4 Collects your data, then sends it insecurely. There has been a call for this insecure information to become secure. From Em Adespoton on Slashdot: “Think about it like this: which is worse: the guy next door taking pictures through your windows night and day, or the guy next door taking pictures through your windows night and day and posting them all online? They’re both bad, but the second is much worse.”

July 2009, George Orwell’s “1984” and “Animal Farm” were remotely deleted from customers’ digital devices. Notes and Annotations were also unusable. The rights holder of these books had to notify Amazon that they were illegal copies. Amazon acknowledges the deletions were a mistake. “We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customer’s devices in these circumstances.” --Drew Herdener, spokesman for Amazon Amazon’s Kindle Devices The Seizure of Your Digitally Purchased Content

Amazon’s Infringement of Rights The actions of Amazon concerning the ebook deletion break their terms of service: “Amazon Grants customers the right to keep a “permanent copy of the applicable digital content.”” “They didn’t just take a book back, they stole my work.” --Justin Gawronski On September 4 th 2009, Amazon offered to restore the deleted books.

Do You Have Privacy? You have none when it comes to commercial ebook readers and software. Amazon and Adobe can effectively censor what you read by knowing every page that is read and they apparently reserve the right to destroy your digital library.

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