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Copyright has generally been seen as a licence between the author/publisher and the reader. When the copyright holder issues a MOBI file authorized for the Kindle's PID, both of these parties agree that the ebook can be read on the Kindle. The party that disagrees is Amazon, but that clearly isn't an ebook copyright issue but instead an attempt to turn on its head the legal tradition that a purchaser can do whatever they want with the stuff they buy.
It is strong evidence for the legality of Igor's script that Amazon has not issued a take down notice for the software. What Amazon has done is prevent ebooks wholesaled by MobiPocket from accepting the Kindle PID. This is arguably violating the rights of publishers, but no publisher has any incentive to sue Amazon.
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