Thread: Amazon uses DMCA to restrict where you can buy e-books
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Old 03-12-2009, 10:49 PM   #172
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Originally Posted by whitearrow View Post
But even if Kindlefix is a circumvention of DRM the company that would have a legitimate beef is the company that the eBook was purchased from -- BooksonBoard or whoever, or the publisher. Not Amazon, it isn't their DRM being circumvented. It doesn't touch any file that was purchased from Amazon. Amazon has no more business in what's in that file than they do my work documents I converted from .doc or .rtf.
If I read this right, their direct target was at KindlePID, not kindlefix, which is another reason (in addition to timing) why I think this is targeted more towards their ability to control distribution through the iTunes store than Kindle owners.
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