Thread: Hacks kindlepid/kindlefix 0.2
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Old 03-10-2009, 12:26 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by scotty1024 View Post
Right. You know as well as I do that Amazon consideres the PID a "secret key" and they've been going out of their way to shutdown licensees from accepting Kindle keys e.g. Fictionwise et al. I'd be as happy as the next guy if it weren't so but Amazon has to do what the publishers demand.

Amazon keeps the PID secret because they want to lock customers into only buying content from their store. Why else would they hide the PID? YEs, they are going out of their way to create a closed market place.

Why was it SO bad when Apple did this? Jeff Bezos stated how awful vendor locking like the iPod/iTune combo cause. This is why the DRM free MP3 stort at amazon was said to exist. But isn't Amazon doing the same thing with the Kindle/Kindle Store. Trying to lock people into having to buy from them.

This has nothing to do with protecting copyright at all. A book checked out from the library using a KindlesPID is encrypted and will only work on a single kindle. You say you "have no problem" with KindleFIX. But, kindlefix would have no file to work on if an ebook encrypted with the correct PID is not used.

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Originally Posted by scotty1024 View Post
All I can do is point out to the horse where the cliff is, it's up to the horse to not jump off it.
No, you want to kill the horse because he drinks from the pig trough... even though the farmer owns both troughs but can only buy water for the horse trough from Amazon.

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