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Originally Posted by zartemis
However, "Digital Content" referred to in the TOS remains restricted to what is available from the Kindle Store and, yes, they are saying they may change what sort of content they offer in the Kindle Store from time to time and you may not use content from the Kindle Store if not authorized to do so. Unless they change the TOS, the current one does not apply to "digital content" not sold from the Kindle Store (because that's how they defined it).
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So you ARE allowed to use DRM'd .mobi books from other vendors, then?
We'll see. Like I said, I'm calling Amazon Legal in Seattle in the AM when I get up.
I think tho, it is pretty clear. DRM'd content for the Kindle is in Amazon's format. No one else is authorized to license content in this format. No one else is licensed to create this format. Amazon doesn't even supply tools to make this format on the desktop for Amazon customers...do they?
No one outside of Amazon and its authorized agents (who are they?) have any rights or licenses regarding Amazon's file format whatsoever.
Its all about the implicit and explicit (yet again) and um, the Amazon format and its decryption is a part of The Software, the Service and the Device.
The only (heheh) legal way I am aware of to get an AWZ file of any kind is from Amazon with or without DRM.
So...what are you saying? Its your right to use unlicensed software for a format that Amazon doesn't even provide a desktop executable tool for...because you bought some entirely different thing from somebody else?!?!
This is preposterous!! Scandalous!! A blight upon mankind and a smack in the face of all that is Good and Right!!!