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Originally Posted by jimh12345
My own opinion is that I own it, and I can do whatever I want with it. I'm not renting this device, I bought it. I don't buy the idea that I'm just 'licensing' the software; I feel I own a copy of that software and I can modify it.
I suggest that everybody just chill on the ethical question. Amazon sells these knowing that the clickthrough rate will be low and that a certain number of people will reconfigure ('hack') them to skip the ads. I'm confident Amazon isn't losing money on this KSO even if I never see or click on an ad, and isn't concerned about the small number of users who modify their units to remove the ads.
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I agree with this. You own the device and the copy of the software on it, and you can therefore do whatever you want to it. You might choose to remove these ads, and there is nothing wrong about this
at all. But by during so you might also break the contract of services (if such was ''signed'' during the purchase). Consequently you might lose the right to get these special offers because you don't actually own this service. It's just an extension of the physical product, so to say. Now it's Amazon's own responsibility to enforce this if they choose to do so, and if they can do so legally. If they cannot, then that is just how it must be. It's simply in the nature of selling a phisical product.
These 'gray' areas is the only thing that stands between you and a future in which you don't actually even own the physical product anymore that you brought. There are many more of these 'gray' areas (buffers) in all parts of life, and we should perserve them, because the alternative is a much bigger theat then these could ever be to us.