see, this is why i don't own a kindle

[piranha]

and will never do so, no matter how spiffy they make them.

i don't want amazon deleting my copies because they've decided "there is a problem". that business model reeks to high heaven.

the whole idea that ebooks are licensed displeases me to begin with, but the big-brother approach amazon takes scared me off their product from the very start.

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Re: orwellian, ha ha

[flarenut]

Amazon's version is actually much less malignant than a lot of others. Many DRM'd music download merchants set things up so that their players would have to phone home on a regular basis to get unlock keys. Then the companies went out of business, or simply decided to stop selling DRM'd music, and poof went the servers. And everyone's purchases with them.

Pretty much everywhere I've commented on this, I've been pushing the idea that this is an enormous security target for Amazon. Somewhere they have the code that will send out a signal to wipe whatever SKU is specified from everyone's Kindles, and unless there's a physically separated private key required to make that happen, this is just a bad capability to have sitting there.