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Originally Posted by slayda
From my understanding of Kindlefix, it does not substitute a different PID, it in fact allows the Kindle to read the file with the Kindles original PID.
I could also quibble about how effectively it does control access but I won't go there.
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That is also my understanding. It does not substitute a different PID. It allows the user to indicate what the correct PID for the device is so that they can read the book.
In addition, considering that the user has paid the appropriate amount to the appropriate people, and has presumably purchased a license to read the book, I need for someone to tell me where the damage lies in allowing the user to read that book on the device they own ... the one with that particular PID.
And, please, tell me exactly who is being damaged? You are suggesting that there are authors out there who only want their book to be read on a particular device?? So, the book will not be available in brick and mortar bookstores, no one can go into the store to buy one, no one can go into a library to check the book out .... it is ONLY going to be available for one reading device? Somehow I don't see the author of that book making very much money .... and, for that matter, I don't see the publisher of the book making very much money.
And, while everyone is quoting the literal text of the code, if I cannot buy a legitimate digital copy of a book to read, and I instead purchase a regular brick and mortar bookstore copy, I'm still "circumventing" that technological barrier that controls access to the work.
I suppose it does come down to the word "effectively." Because that particular type of DRM is about as ineffective as it gets. There's a typical federal code logical loop for you ....
1. If some hacker can easily circumvent the DRM then it must not be "effective";
2. If the DRM is not effective, then it's not illegal to circumvent it ...
Ah yes, the proud work of our elected officials ...
Oh, and before I forget, the law does not exist in a vacuum. The party who considers themselves (or their DRM) violated under the code must be the one who brings the complaint. There is a little issue of standing. And .... I want to hear the convoluted reasoning someone is going to have to go through to explain how my using my PID associated with my Kindle at another online bookstore circumvents DRM put in place by Amazon?? It could, in theory, circumvent DRM put in place by the other online bookstore, but then Amazon has no standing to complain about that.