11-19-2007, 07:28 PM | #1 | |||||
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Kindle license agreenent notes...
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=200144530 Some bits of interest... Quote:
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Having 100% of your product available on the net all the time is pretty convenient for a software developer. Of course you can turn the wireless off if you don't have something like a newspaper subscription and don't want to recharge the device every two days. And of course everyone wants to be nosey these days... Quote:
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11-19-2007, 07:32 PM | #2 |
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So if you read pirated books on the Kindle Amazon might notice? Or do they promise not to look at this kind of information?
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11-19-2007, 07:48 PM | #3 |
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11-20-2007, 03:10 AM | #4 |
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What about content I legally own but that is not meant for others people's eyes? I can immediately think of two cases... company documents and purchased DRM-free e-books in PDF.
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11-20-2007, 12:37 PM | #5 |
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Yep. Putting my company documents on anything network-capable has to get the approval of my IT department and there's no way I'd get that for the Kindle with that ToS. I might squeak an iLiad through.
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11-20-2007, 12:59 PM | #7 |
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If it's on the Kindle they can read it. I'm not saying they will but they have access to it and appear to be reserving the right to do it.
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11-20-2007, 01:22 PM | #8 |
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I also don't trust them not to tell the government what I read just like we all now realize we can't trust our telcos not to turn over our usage data without a warrant. You may think that's paranoid but with 750,000 people on the watch list, maybe it's not. Of course, just downloading a political book is probably just as risky so I doubt the Kindle is adding much to it. |
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11-20-2007, 06:16 PM | #11 |
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If they can push subscriptions and (presumably) update firmware over the air, who knows what else they can do? They definitely didn't release sources of the UI for us to poke at.
I doubt they will ever read user's files (if ever discovered, such thing would raise a giant stink), but the option is there. |
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