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Originally Posted by DNSB
Minor nit: You don't need an account. My experience is all I need to do is to navigate to the firmware download page, click on the download link and save the file. Not even an EULA to agree to.
I tend to agree it's hard to consider it piracy when you can freely download the content from Amazon's site.
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While I agree with you, and JSWolf, I can see a case being made that even though the firmware is freely available, the fact that it must be deconstructed in some manner beyond just unzipping a compressed file that Amazon did not intend to allow users to access the font files.
Would that hold up in a court? Debatable, and probably heavily dependent upon why Amazon was going after you. Also it's hard for them to try and track down folks who are doing this on their own. Unless they want to try and install spyware on every single computer*.
*I am not saying Amazon wants to do this, has ever said they wanted to do this or have ever done this. There is virtually no reason for them to try to do this given the PR nightmare that would surely come to be.