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Originally Posted by JSWolf
When you view this DVD on your computer, the program you are using to view the DVD with has code to allow you to view this DVD by decrypting the DRM the same way your DVD player does. This is legal. But it might not be legal if the DRM had code that said only in a standalone DVD player can this be used. You'd need to have a program on your computer to read that and still allow it to be used on your computer.
When you shift the DRM so the eBook now works with a Kindle, you are changing the DRM. It's no longer the same DRM. When you downloaded the library eBook and fixed it so it could be viewed on a Kindle, you've just changed the bits in the book that lock it in place. The DRM has been altered, modified, changed. And if Amazon wanted you to be able to view Library eBooks, they would not have created AZW. And we all know AZW was created so Amazon could have total control over the DRMed eBooks for the Kindle. Why else would they change the document type? Amazon owns Mobipocket and if they wanted that to work as is on the Kindle, they would have programmed it to do so. But because that would take some of the control away from from Amazon, they created AZW.
Basically, when you change the DRM, you make the DRM no longer the same DRM as what it was. And thus you take control away from Amazon. This is something that Jeff does not like. I see Jeff as a megalomaniac out to control all the eBooks for the Kindle.
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And, for once, I entirely agree with you. So, why did they make the Kindle able to read *.prc files?? Why make it read or view HTML?? If they wanted to limit the Kindle to *.azw files, why not just do that and be done with it?
Why lie to the consumer and advertise that the Kindle is not limited to books purchased at the Amazon Kindle Store, when they plan to criminalize anyone who reads a book on their Kindle that is not in *.azw format?
So, I've really got to ask myself why I ever recommended the Kindle as a reading device ... hell, why do I own three of them? I've got a lot of books that I obtained, legitimately, either by purchase or for free, that were from sources other than the Kindle Store.
I'm sorry .... but that is just plain creepy. I do not remember giving Jeff Bezos authority to determine what I am and am not allowed to read, on my Kindle or anywhere else.