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Whilst this is more about AWS accounts, the ability of Amazon (and other cloud providers) to lock you out of an account with very limited recourse does present

Whilst this is more about AWS accounts, the ability of Amazon (and other cloud providers) to lock you out of an account with very limited recourse does present some other problems. I've got quite a few ebooks I've bought via Amazon Kindle. If amazon one day decided to delete/lock my account, I would lose access to all that content which I had "bought". The more data people store in various cloud providers systems, the more the need for some kind of recovery mechanism / dispute resolution process becomes apparent. Whilst its relatively easy, in many cases, for more technical users to ensure they have backups of data that they control, less technical users could have a lot of their information tied up in these systems, and loss of it could be quite bad for them.

djsumdog 9y ago
You don't really buy eBooks. You can't resell them after all. You're just renting them. I'd look up some of the free tools out there and backup/un-DRM your Amazon/Nook/Google e-books. There are some guides out there for extracting your books notes as well.
- raesene9 9y ago
  Thus my quotes around "bought" . Again whilst technical people likely know the consequences of buying DRM protected content, I think that a non-technical person who suddenly found their paid for content removed from them due to an automated process locking/deleting their account would be quite upset. People are, for better or worse, entrusting more and more of their content to cloud services, things like photographs, documents they've created, music etc etc.
- satbyy 9y ago
  > You're just renting them. It's not renting really. If I rent a physical book (or house, etc), I have exclusive access to it. Nobody else can possess it. It's for this privilege that I'm paying. Obviously, this is not true of ebooks because 'X' persons can "rent" at the same time. You're just licensing them. You're just paying for a license which can be revoked at Amazon's whim.

djsumdog 9y ago

You don't really buy eBooks. You can't resell them after all. You're just renting them. I'd look up some of the free tools out there and backup/un-DRM your Amazon/Nook/Google e-books. There are some guides out there for extracting your books notes as well.

raesene9 9y ago
Thus my quotes around "bought" . Again whilst technical people likely know the consequences of buying DRM protected content, I think that a non-technical person who suddenly found their paid for content removed from them due to an automated process locking/deleting their account would be quite upset. People are, for better or worse, entrusting more and more of their content to cloud services, things like photographs, documents they've created, music etc etc.
satbyy 9y ago
> You're just renting them. It's not renting really. If I rent a physical book (or house, etc), I have exclusive access to it. Nobody else can possess it. It's for this privilege that I'm paying. Obviously, this is not true of ebooks because 'X' persons can "rent" at the same time. You're just licensing them. You're just paying for a license which can be revoked at Amazon's whim.