Adobe's Digital Editions Collecting Less Data, Says EFF

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 3, 2014 @06:03AM from the less-spying-same-great-taste dept.

itwbennett writes Tests on the latest version of Adobe System's e-reader software shows the company is now collecting less data following a privacy-related dustup last month, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Adobe was criticized in early October after it was discovered Digital Editions collected metadata about e-books on a device, even if the e-books did not have DRM. Those logs were also sent to Adobe in plain text. Digital Editions version 4.0.1 appears to only collect data on e-books that have DRM (Digital Rights Management), writes Cooper Quintin, a staff technologist with the EFF.

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Piracy FTW! by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-03 06:27 · Score: 2, Insightful

So they are only spying on you when you read DRM'd books.
It is like the entire content industry wants people to choose piracy.
o Piracy means no one else knows what/when/where and how long you read/watch/listen to something
o Piracy means no worries about losing access to something you paid for
o Piracy means no lock-in to single devices or single manufacturer "ecosystems"
Even if pirated content wasn't cost free and commercial free, all the other ways these guys want to fook me over for the privilege of paying them money is enough to drive anyone to pirate.