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Originally Posted by InlawBiker
I use it to put library e-books onto my Kindle. Without a PID I couldn't do so. No DRM is removed, the content still expires after 3 weeks.
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And how do you know if your Library is legally entitled to encode ebooks using a Kindle PID? Amazon has clearly been going around turning this off. Perhaps, during these hard economic times, your library is too poor to upgrade their software to the newer version that respects Amazon's rights AKA fixes the "bug"?
And what would you do if they did upgrade? A bug is a bug after all, it's pretty clear these Mobipocket encoders were supposed to reject PID's with the magic character in them. Would you stomp into the library and demand your non-existent rights?
You are arguing for the side of chaos here. If you think Congress gave DRM holders too much power your argument is with Congress, not Amazon. In any case I think you'd find that the reality is that Amazon's hands are actually tied by the publishers. Frankly, if allowing libraries to lend ebooks to Kindle owners sold more Kindle's, the laws of simple capitalism would seem to dictate Amazon would be happy to sell more Kindle's.
I mean Amazon owns Mobipocket.com. What kind of twisted contracts must be contorting Amazon that they can't sell me content for the Kindle from their own ebook store???
The kind of contracts that come with built in heavy duty NDA's would be my bet.
