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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
No, you're right. There may be many similarities between .mobi & .azw files, but for all practical purposes they are different files.
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Nope, Kindle files
are MobiPocket files. Rename a Kindle ".azw" file to ".prc" or ".mobi" and load it into MobiPocket Reader. It will happily show you the cover of the book, and tell you that it's not registered to your device. ie it recognises it as a MobiPocket file.
I agree with you that the practical effect of it is that you cannot currently read previously-purchased Mobi content on the Kindle, but that's (probably) simply because you don't know the Kindle's PID. If someone finds a way to prize the PID out of the Kindle, you'd (probably) to able to enter that PID at the bookstores where you'd previously bought Mobi books and download new versions that the Kindle would read.
All the indications are that the Kindle uses exactly the same Mobi DRM as any other Mobi store does - it just hides the device PID from you and does it all automatically.