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> Yeah, dream on. How long do you think this option will stay available to you? For as long as my reader can decrypt ebooks locally.

• patrec 5y ago
  Fahrenheit 451 style, right? Because local vs cloud doesn't matter squat if all the devices your have locally are locked down completely and controlled by someone else.
  • dv_dt 5y ago
    For books the analog hole is probably widening with better ocr now than ever.
    • patrec 5y ago
      The last remaining analog hole may soon be people. Recording devices are basically already digital, and there is no fundamental difficulty in embedding enough pattern recognition to ensures that you don't replicate material that's either thoughtcrime or the valuable IP of Elsevier, RIAA or some similar benefactor of humanity. Photoshop reportedly already refuses to work on scenes that contain money.
      • dv_dt 5y ago
        Money is one thing, but you can’t exactly autoblur all text without a mass uproar. And at least for now I don’t think it’s feasible to keep enough updated storage and processing around photo devices to recognize temporary pics of all copyrighted texts either - even with heavily optimized hashes. But, I could be wrong in this assumption.