If Amazon ever does feel compelled the compulsion will be economic or legal. They won't be compelled by principles.
They are certainly capable of surveying Kindle devices via phone-home and estimating the loss of revenue. Not sure how much it effects books but I am quite convinced the failure of DRM has had significant affect on the music industry so could be ebooks too.
I am by no means arguing that they will. Only that they could....and other devices like laptops could not.
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