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by snowwrestler 2246 days ago
Amazon owns the computer and grants you limited rights to use it, in exchange for the money you pay them. It's basically the opposite of a script kiddie hacking into someone else's web server.

Now, indiscriminate access to your content might violate whatever commitments Amazon made to you in their terms of service; I have not read them for a long time and can't remember what the language is specifically. But that would not be a matter for the FBI.