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Originally Posted by wallcraft
This is the best argument I have seen against KindlePID, and it might hold water if mobipocket.com was the only provider of MOBI DRM (since they refuse to honor Kindle PIDs). OverDrive is a major supplier of DRMed MOBIs and they do accept the Kindle PID. So KindleFIX on OverDrive MOBIs is a non-infringing use for KindlePID.
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Hey I supported the PID generator back with Fictionwise took 'em. But now that Amazon has made a point out of telling them they can't take the PID's Amazon's intent is clear: it's a secret key for a DRM system.
In any case... why did Igor add support for iPhone PID's? There is no legitimate fig leaf that covers that addition.
None.
That calls into question the intent. However, his follow up posting leaves no wiggle room at all: by his own words he's gone over to the dark side.
He knows exactly what the tool is for.
Besides those Overdrive folks were the ones that recently pulled the plug on Fictionwise and left me high and dry on more than a couple protected ebooks? If so they're not what I'd call the best example of a DRM distributor out there to be plugging your Kindle PID into.
And my guess would be they're one step ahead at most from Amazon's lawyers as it is. Amazon is clearly taking the low tech approach to re-securing Mobipocket until Topaz is ready for prime time: make the PID's secret and unsupported by anyone else.
Our society rests on a bed rock of laws. If you disagree with a law you get it changed. If you break the laws you disagree with what keeps me safe if you decide I have something you need more? Where does the law breaking end? I tell you where it ends: a shivering baby shucking milk from it's mother's teat in a cold damp shelter since Mom's warm home was lost along with her job when someone broke a law they disagreed with.
http://www.rr.com/security/security/...embezzling_10M
The law didn't stop the lady from embezzling. The law didn't stop the employees from losing their jobs. Laws have no power unless people agree to abide by them and help find and stop those whom won't. People have to remember that it doesn't take a badge to make society work.
We won't get DRM repealed by going to the governments and saying "Repeal DRM because it doesn't work, it's easily broken, it's impossible to make it strong enough to not be broken, it's pointless!"
You get DRM repealed by going to the government and getting them to understand that people are basically honest. If they understand that taking a copy of an ebook means a baby might be going hungry they won't do it, unless their own baby is going hungry and they need the ebook.
Which is my point in the whole DRM argument: people are honest, people understand "pay it forward", people just need to know when they are taking something from someone else: which can be tricky with digital content "what am I taking?" If you can't afford that copy of
Super Monkey Ball for your iPhone that's one thing. If you can and think it's over priced but you take it anyway, that's something else.
So say what you want about Overdrive's and libraries but the real issue is either you abide by the laws of society: or you don't. The copyright holders are just that: the copyright holders. They decide when and how we get to use
their content. Someday that protected content will enter the public domain and when that happy day for society occurs we get to decide. But until that day comes the deal we made as society was they the copyright holders get to decide.
Is this really so hard to grasp?