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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
There's definitely a "Clipping Limit" on many Amazon ebooks. It's not really how much you can clip, but rather how many clippings you can take. It's an obvious attempt to thwart someone who might want to "clip" the entire book. But seeing as how the Kindle (nor the desktop apps) can highlight across page turns, someone would have to be very, very dedicated to clip an entire book into a text file. Pirates certainly wouldn't waste their time doing it.
Even though it doesn't really affect me personally, I can certainly see Amazon's clipping limit being a PITA in academic settings.
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You know, it's almost kind of funny how ridiculous that is. Seriously, why would someone do that when it takes 2 seconds to strip the DRM? Do they not realize it's that easy to strip it? How could they not? I'm sure they spend a lot of money on data collection to ascertain this stuff. They would have to be beyond incompetent not to know. Are they just that profoundly paranoid? I'm pretty sure we have some choice names for the combination of irrationality and paranoia.