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when you purchase a DRM'd device or piece of intellectual property, you agree to the handcuffs of the design and the philosophy - if so, that's fine...
fortunately, there are open alternatives, and 'free as in not free beer' choices in the world - and always will be... i am more than willing to suffer loss of functionality and feature to be able to use hardware and software free of encumbrance...
just as RIAA was behind the eight-ball (something i told David Segal when he was at the Washington Post many years ago) on the .mp3 format, 'middlemen' such as Amazon will learn - to great disappointment - that software, ideas, and the published word cannot and will never be 'locked up' to exclusive use...
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