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No it doesn't. You reload DRM-stripped books on the device, as if it had never been bought from Amazon. Don't forget that DRMs aren't here to save Amazon from
by fab13n 14y ago
No it doesn't. You reload DRM-stripped books on the device, as if it had never been bought from Amazon.
Don't forget that DRMs aren't here to save Amazon from piracy. Today and for the next couple of years, what they really care about is securing a dominant position. So the DRM security only needs to be good enough to reassure clueless edition managers, who believe that DRM will help their business rather than hurt it. So they have no incentive to get out of their way to bug DRM-stripping customers (in light of which, I'd guess some of the morons who handled Linn Nygaard's case will be fired, and deservedly so).
Same as iTunes DRM actually, which Apple ended up discarding once they were in a position to tell the music editor to just shut up.
- danso 14y ago> No it doesn't. You reload DRM-stripped books on the device, as if it had never been bought from Amazon. Yeah that's the issue...From what I can tell, Amazon differentiates between both and I imagine that would affect how its central database of highlights/bookmarkings keeps track of each individual book. I suppose this would affect you only if you were highlighting a DRM book and then stripped the DRM...which I guess is mostly an edge case.
- TeMPOraL 14y agoFrom what I saw on my own Kindle, there's no "central database of highlights/bookmarkings"; it's stored per book in new files Kindle create next to each book.
- danso 14y ago> No it doesn't. You reload DRM-stripped books on the device, as if it had never been bought from Amazon. Yeah that's the issue...From what I can tell, Amazon differentiates between both and I imagine that would affect how its central database of highlights/bookmarkings keeps track of each individual book. I suppose this would affect you only if you were highlighting a DRM book and then stripped the DRM...which I guess is mostly an edge case.