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Originally Posted by Patricia
Surely it would be unwise for Amazon actively to prevent people from using legally-purchased ebooks on kindles?
The ensuing publicity would hardly benefit Kindle sales, and it would be an imprudent move, given that they have just released a new model.
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I agree. But, that is what they are in point of fact doing. Unwise or not, that's it in a nutshell.
And, here's what's galling .... a person can be in violation of the DMCA even if there is no copyright violation whatsoever.
As I am reading and researching this POS legislation, I am discovering that if I purchase a DRM book or a DRM DVD or CD, and I play it or view it on a device without the appropriate DRM decoding built into it, and I do anything at all to make that media work on that device .... even if I only do it for my own use of that media that I freaking purchased and never distribute it (much less sell it), but just create something that allows me to view the content that I bought, I'm subject to prosecution.
Now, I will tell you what that makes me, personally, want to run out and do .... if I'm going to be a criminal anyway, why the hell should I purchase the content from the publisher?? Why not just get something that costs a whole lot less and already has the DRM stripped from a pirate?
And, you know something? That's exactly what a lot of people are going to do ... if they haven't already started doing it, and that's what's going to kill the music industry, and online publishing, and other forms of digital media as well.