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It's important to me to be ethical, and deal only with ethical businesses. But before you get the wrong idea, I consider DRM to be unethical, as we have copyright laws to do what they are trying to do with brute force. Rather I would consider it totally ethical for programmers capable of writing format conversion programs to take a .AZW file from a Kindle, unloaded from the Kindle to a hard disk using the supplied USB cable, and convert it back to a format that can be edited or printed by about any PC owner.
Fortunately in the EU of Europe, some countries are considering outlawing the use of DRM whether for text, music, or what have you. Maybe when that happens we can get the "bought" politicians in this country to give up such illegal income and pass laws in support of our basic copyright laws, and make anything else -- like DRM -- illegal.
Charles Wilkes, San Jose, Calif.
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