(hope this is the right forum part)
http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/
"A couple of days a go, my friend Linn sent me an e-mail, being very frustrated: Amazon just closed her account and wiped her Kindle. Without notice. Without explanation. This is DRM at it’s worst."
I've never used Amazon before.
Should I even care much about this?
I've never used Amazon before.
Should I even care much about this?
Not in that case.
But anyone using kindle should really back up what they have on a hard drive or paper.
Dang it can't get link to work I'm that supposed smart phone
Yeah, what AT said. In the better than 3 years I've had friends working for Amazon Customer Service, I've never heard of something like that happening, it sounds like they at least thought she did something wrong.
I use Calibre for handling my Kindle, and it keeps backups in my Docs folder. Definitely recommend it to anyone using one.
Thanks for the heads up.
I don't use a kindle or buy books from Amazon, but given the state of DRM today, you are kind of asking for it if you do not strip the DRM from your ebooks to archive them. This applies to any electronic media really.
This is very easy to do for kindle books especially.
Also, I don't know if you can root a kindle, but it might help protect your data from Amazon if you can.
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I use Calibre for handling my Kindle, and it keeps backups in my Docs folder. Definitely recommend it to anyone using one.
Thanks for the heads up.
Love Calibre
Download LinkWish I could use it more easily for my Paizo PDFs but since the default Titles in the Acrobat files are set to the PF#### codes, I would have to rename every file.
@Saint Caleth: I don't know anything about rooting a Kindle, but with my Nook I back everything up in Calibre and just leave it in airplane mode 99% of the time. No connection = no possibility of remote deletes.
Kindle has to connect every so often, to update its ads. If it doesn't it becomes very slow and laggy and buggy, and eventually starts crashing itself just trying to open books. Had this happen to me a little less than a month ago, as I hadn't allowed the thing to connect online since the last book I'd downloaded, over three months prior.
@Saint Caleth: I don't know anything about rooting a Kindle, but with my Nook I back everything up in Calibre and just leave it in airplane mode 99% of the time. No connection = no possibility of remote deletes.
I have a nook as well, which I specifically bought because at the time you could root a nook but not a kindle. I also concur that Calibre is basically awesome.
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Actualy, Amazon has been an excellent client for my kindle for the past couple of years. A series of rather freaky accidents had my kindle destroyed no less than 4 times (one of them was actualy the post service failing to deliver the new kindle, which meant I needed yet another one sent for me). The new devices were always given to me for free with no trouble at all, which is something very positive, I think.
Just thought to counterbalance the thread a bit.
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In most cases you're buying a limited-use license to read the book in a certain way. If you don't like that, just buy physical books.
Don't steal from authors ('sharing' an ebook with others while keeping a copy for yourself, or giving the same ebook to thousands of 'friends' when you only bought one copy, is stealing), 99% of which are making just enough money to live a decent life.
Follow the rules--they're about as simple as rules come--, and I doubt you have much to worry about, be it Kindle, Nook, or iPad, Sony Reader or any other device.
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If you read the wording of Amazon's replies you would know what happened. Her account (either with or without 'aka Hacked' her consent) got used to create another account which broke the rules and she is being banned and her books deleted because of it.
So Potential Victim who can sue Amazon for not protecting their account-users from being hacked.
Actualy, Amazon has been an excellent client for my kindle for the past couple of years. A series of rather freaky accidents had my kindle destroyed no less than 4 times (one of them was actualy the post service failing to deliver the new kindle, which meant I needed yet another one sent for me). The new devices were always given to me for free with no trouble at all, which is something very positive, I think.
Just thought to counterbalance the thread a bit.
I've had very similar experiences. They've replaced mine when it was clearly out of warranty when I called for tech support.