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Originally Posted by EndStop
I am talking about firmware in the kindle that will detect copyright material and react. You could load a pirated copy but it will just do a text compare with samples from a large selection of Amazon's better sellers. The processing power and storage involved is feasible.
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It is extremely unlikely that Amazon (or any other major e-book retailer) would implement such a check.
Amazon allows you to read books that you purchased elsewhere using their apps and devices. That feature encourages customers of B&N and Kobo to switch to Amazon, knowing that they can retain access to their existing purchases if they care about that.
They then encourage future purchases to be made at the Amazon store in several ways. Books from elsewhere are segregated as "documents" instead of books and attempting to defeat that results in lack of synchronization of that book with your account. Several features of the reading apps/devices are only available for books in KFX format and Amazon has tried to keep users from converting their non-Amazon purchased books to that format.
What they are instead doing is making it more difficult to take purchased books out of their Kindle ecosystem. Most books are now delivered in KFX format, which is far harder to convert to EPUB than their previous formats. In addition they are in the process of rolling out a new DRM scheme for that format, probably in reaction to support for KFX being added to the DeDRM tools earlier this year.