Mine Forever

You can "use" the product you purchased, as long as you USE Logos to use the product that belongs to you.
This is like Ford selling you gas but you have to drive a Ford vehicle to use that gas.

No it's not. Nobody is going to convince me that locking content format to a proprietary system is "ownership".
And doing it to say it's to protect from piracy is also calling all of their customers pirates.

My local public library has been operating all my life. And yet if I loan out a book it still doesn't have my own name on it.

Ya. I could build a house with hand tools too. But there is a better way.

My real problem is that this world isn't safe. In America we've enjoyed a void of persecution. But that can change anytime.
Remember of the fish icon is from Christians drawing it in the dirt to identify each other in the presence of tyranny. We are living in a prosperity bubble that is so very tentative.

Microsoft has already proven, by things like mandatory windows updates, that my online connected computer is at the mercy of the ruling class. Modern ownership is just an illusion so the masses don't realize what's going on and flip the monopoly table. One day they just might (and probably will) up and decide that my beliefs are unacceptable and that I am not compliant with some esg score or social credit score or something. That I'm a danger to society and have to be disallowed from participating in buying or selling. And so the gov requiring companies to block people. Oop, there goes my library.

This has already been happening; we have been seeing these sorts of disclosures through this Doge thing.
Much money has been spent on oppressing Christian faculty in many ways; including debanking and censorship. That could get alot worse, just ask Daniel. Twenty years of cancel culture has made people accustomed to thinking that is normal. It is anything but.

I'm going to be waking up to reading nothing at all, if the world has its way. 😅

My complaint terminated at the end of my first post. People debating me so there is a debate.
In light of the free Logos version I shouldn't be calling it illegal, but is still no good.

A suggestion is to use paper books. But digital works are superior for that defense too. In the event of a home invasion, flood or fire, I could have had a digital back up copy made and off site for safe keeping. With paper books this isn't reasonable. Neither could I afford eleven hundred paper books. The same library I could carry around on my smart phone in my pocket.

With your comment FaithLife is telling me what I can or cannot say. How easy would that translate to what I can or cannot read? This isn't just theory. In the past I used to curate large YouTube playlists. Over time I watched the list of "unavailable" videos grow larger and larger. I learned that if I want to keep playlists intact, I have to take the content off line. Removing content from the public forum based on what the rich don't want people to see is the equivalent to book burning. We're still in the dark ages.

And it's their software too. So when they feel I'm doing things like you say, what then? "Oh sorry, we can't let you use our application anymore." Yup there goes my library. So you guys are proving that I have a legitimate concern.

Wow I didn't know that. Ok that makes sense why protections would have been added to the content.
If I were Logos I would be choked.

Remember when I said the big tech can block your comments but are "unable" to take down pirate websites?
Ya that's because if they stop piracy they don't have an excuse to follow people around and take their data. Just like if virus makers are brought down the antivirus companies are out of business, and also less excuse to take data.
The same reason the US Copyright Office won't make generative AI illegal; then the big names can't do their shady work either. So they let the little guys run around trampling the world.

Modern America excels at managing problems instead of curing them. Because both sides of an industry are making money from the suffering of people. The problem generates revenue for one group of people and the solution generates revenue for another group of people.

But I'm pretty sure that people could crack the books anyway. If someone is committed to doing these things, there isn't much stopping them. Then most of us suffer from less freedom with our books. It's weird because you would think doing this wouldn't be that lucrative. That they would choose more profitable targets than this. You can buy a bundle of books for twenty bucks. Maybe some people just don't like Christians and want to watch the world burn.

Oh I see. Maybe in second year seminary they will come across the "thou shalt not steal" part.

He that does truth is made manifest that his deeds are wrought in God.

If I'm really concerned? EVERYBODY is concerned about this problem.

You know how many career artists have abandoned Adobe over these things?
Leaving to inferior software, giving them the finger because everyone alive has had it up to here with tech companies ripping us off to our face and acting like they aren't doing anything wrong. Like a guy hiding behind a light pole but half his body is showing. "You can't see me." … Yes I can. Fifty years ago the government would have had their business license for these kinds of things.

Remember when everyone read the riot act to Amway? Calling them a pyramid scheme and a cult? Yup that's called a SUBSCRIPTION MODEL! But now everyone's doing it so it's fine, right? Everything's legal man, as long as you don't get caught.

The whole reason we have a protestant reformation in the first place is because of the outright rejection of a subscription model.

They used to say we are going to have flying cars, cured diseases and utopia. But instead America took prayer out of school and one generation later we got 200 genders and licensing instead of ownership. You know the main difference between capitalism and communism is property ownership.

For Logos, we get the AI search, phone sync, monthly free book, temp access to a generic book collection etc. Fine. But NOT my separately purchased books.
FaithLife isn't a streaming service or public library. I didn't buy books so that I can borrow them. Their store is a book store, not a library. Their marketing declares, "yours forever" not "ours forever".
This is a library:
https://openlibrary.org/

Big difference.
I didn't know about this export thing, so I tried it. You have to select every chapter manually. You don't get a table of contents. It has an 'exported by Logos' watermark on every page, scripture hyperlinks injected in the text and you don't get page numbers.

I can tell that reformatting books isn't the point of this export feature. It's for sectioning out pieces of a book for group use and what not. It would take me six months to manually click on each chapter and export twelve hundred books. I can tell that if they wanted us to have the books in an ebook format they would have provided that.

Logos is the place to use the books we bought. I have no intention of using something else. Just as I have no intention of using my spare key to get in my house. But that doesn't mean I don't keep a spare key. Currently FaithLife is keeping the key to the front door of my books, making me a renter not an owner.

Ya. If I wanted to jailbreak the books I would have done that already and no one would have known about it.

Ok I gave that a try.

Export 'Page Selection Range' didn't work at all, no matter how I tried. So I checked every single box, exported.

In MS Word, I did the surgery on this small ebook. Removed hyperlinks, reformatted link text, removed footers, created a table of contents (configuring headers to work with it, somewhat destroying the original fonts), inserted page breaks, cleaned up widows and orphans, fixed the margins (forgot to insert auto-page numbers).

Set metadata: Author, Title, Subject, Tags, Comment, Date Modified, Rating.
Convert to pdf. Page breaks didn't work at all and Foxit doesn't detect the table of contents (you have to use bookmarks or something instead).

The guy in the video said this takes ten minutes. I started at 1pm, with a few brief MS Word refresher tutorials, it is now 5pm. To properly export a 60 page ebook. And I still have a broken document that I still have to figure out how to fix further.

You're wondering how this still works? Because just like every other company, FaithLife knows exactly what they're doing. Force is not the only way of protection; obscurity is a way too. This 'Export' is allowed because the method of time attrition discourages exporting books for a personal backup copy (something that is a consumer right). It's a ridiculous waste of anybody's time and something we should not have to do, being paying customers. It's like going to a restaurant and being expected to cook your own food cause you are only paying for the raw food ingredients.

Just like a YouTube video, a young woman barely dressed doing "yoga for educational purposes". With coincidental "links" to an OF's page. Top comments: "She knows exactly what she's doing." Yup. The masses pretend like they don't know the game that's being played; the shot callers playing us all like a fiddle, but we just keep pretending they aren't doing it and they keep pretending they aren't doing it. While math has no ability to lie. Just changing the names of these Old-World-Order systems of tyranny and domination, and call it a day. The common man is none the wiser; not wanting to lose what little he has to resist the powers that be.

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I used a third party program to block Logos' internet access to see what happens. As I predicted it refused to run. It actually bricked the program entirely; I had to restart my computer to fix it. I got lucky; if I had to reinstall Logos, would have I lost my library, and/or all the 'book info' configuring work that I've done? (There is no 'User Options Export')

So what does that mean? That people can use the defense of the 'free Logos version' means "yours forever" is not fraud, but what about the internet access requirement? Uh oh. And the fact that the 'Use Internet' toggle button is evidently clandestine itself.

This same 60 page book, Logos says it's a 140 page book btw. Yup cause that's not fraud either.
A while back I caught Glitch Machines copying wav samples, and just renaming them and barely changing them to fill out sample packs; so that they can take a sample pack that's content is worth $25 and sell it for $50. This is called corrupt scales (smudging the numbers), which God calls abomination.

I would say that I wonder what the FTC thinks about these things, but I can hazard a guess they already know. Why? Because of what Amazon just got away with. The big names have the money to bribe the corrupt government. Since justice is blind, they can't be telling smaller companies that they can't run these false advertising rackets, because the big companies would have to adhere to that standard as well (Same problem with generative AI copyright infringement).

As in: Of course it's fraud! And we all know it.
The golden rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.

I'm highly disappointed, that's all I have to say.