Apologies for the necromancy here, but as this thread is a good one I don't mind dragging it back to the surface too much.
I hope that failing to register the device will prevent updates being pushed to it unexpectedly. So that's one potential reason. The other is that I expect to disagree with the terms & conditions one must agree to during registration,
For example, I'm fairly sure I disagree with some of the following:
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Originally Posted by Amazon
No Reverse Engineering, Decompilation, Disassembly, or Circumvention. You may not (i) modify, reverse engineer, or disassemble the Kindle or the Software whether in whole or in part, (ii)... (iii) ...bypass, modify, defeat, or tamper with or circumvent any of the functions or protections of the Kindle or Software or any mechanisms operatively linked to the Software...
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I have every intention of disassembling the device and persuading it to run software it wasn't intended to, and of butchering the mechanism by which it sends data to Amazon, I don't wish to agree to terms & conditions which I would break within minutes of hitting "OK".
These look like good forums, a lot of interesting information on them. Cheers