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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
The phase you quote is not part of their terms of use, unless there is some other document you are basing this quotation on. Links are appreciated! Yes, "removing the DRM" would be a plausible paraphrase. |
I didn't intend to suggest that this is a quotation from Amazon and I didn't think it would be regarded as such as it is clearly not legal speak.
The same link you gave has this
"you may not bypass, modify, defeat, or circumvent security features that protect the Kindle Content." ("Kindle Content" at the start of that page being defined as more or less everything digital that you buy through Amazon's store.)
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
We know your three word quotation, plausible as it may be, is not Amazon policy because boatloads of customers remove the DRM of purchased content and nothing is done about it. The only evidence we have for the OP case is that the dispute concerns cross-national purchasing, not DRM.
That quotation is acccurate, except that you seem to have invented the boldfacing. Amazon's whole sentence is false, and it would indeed be funny if Amazon boldfaced the word that's the most clearly a lie.
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Yes, the emphasis is mine but be careful about your conclusion. Your rights are terminated if you don't comply with this terms of use. That they aren't currently enforced is a different matter. But that could change any time, maybe when one of the big publishers would urge Amazon to take action (OTOH Amazon is so big that almost any publisher would have a hard time doing this).
We don't know why Amazon is currently turning a blind eye on this situation. My guess would be that going for the small fishes would just be very bad PR for them and it would again draw more attention to the bad sides of DRM. But we don't really know.