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Originally Posted by scotty1024
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?
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Now you're looking for what-if's. There are already precedents for fair use of a device I own. I can and will use it to read library books. Amazon is free to sue the pants off of public library patrons using their Kindles, and they're welcome to the backlash it'll cause.
Amazon will just be the next company to find out that DRM doesn't work. It can always be circumvented and always will be. Some companies will go kicking and screaming into the future, some will find a business model that works. Amazon's is probably working quite well, as far as I can tell, despite some stolen books.
The world has a rich history of companies that have gone out of business because technology supplanted their model. I suppose their babies were hungry too. There's also a long history of failed DRM models. To my knowledge none of them has really worked.