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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
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.
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I liked "pre-edit" post better.
Are you a lawyer?
If so, when you say damages, you'll notice I previously asked "is there victim?", because I am not a lawyer, and I think "damages" has a legal definition. We're on the same page - Is there a victim? (damages?), if not who cares, except maybe Homeland security,...kidding.
In any case, and I am agnostic to the answer, simply curious - Could Amazon claim "we applied the DRM" (or our agent mobipocket did), it's been "circumvented", and the damages are that since we didn't sell directly via amazon.com, which was our intention, we made less money (assume they demonstrate that), we didn't collect the marketing information so we lost the "up-sell" or "cross-sell", we lost the advertising revenue opportunity (worth n$), and so on? Or simply, or intention was to make people pay twice once for Palm, once for Kindle, it's our prerogative to do so, whether you like it or not, and you just stole ~1/2 the potential revenue in this situation? - See? the babies are starving.
I wanted to leave this alone, but it's too easy to poke once more.
Frankly - at a "real use" level for normal people, this is all moot, they'll kindlefix and/or mobidedrm away in the privacy of their own home anyway, just like they make "back up" copies of their DVDs.