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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
I am stunned - guess I am naive. Amazon is preventing its customers from shopping elsewhere. When my kindle 1 gives up the ghost, I will be thinking long and hard before I lock myself in with another ebook reader. I was only using the PID on Mobi anyway! Doesn't it all go to the same place?
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If they could theoretically keep people from finding and using Kindlepid, that wouldn't prevent them from using other tools to strip the DRM off of books purchased elsewhere. You have access to the PID in your Mobipocket software. You can just use that to strip DRM and read the books. So far none of us have been busted for it (which doesn't mean we won't be of course). I think they'd be foolish to start snooping on our Kindles. It would be a publicity firestorm.
Kindlepid does let people with iPhones get their PIDs and that's what's used to encrypt the books they buy at Amazon. I think this is more about keeping iPhone users from liberating their Amazon books than keeping Kindle owners from putting their own books on. I think that is too small a blip to worry about given the bad publicity it would give them. Most Kindle owners probably buy almost all their content at Amazon. iPhone users putting their deDRMed books on the pirate interwebs is a far bigger threat. I think there's a much larger population of folks out there with jailbroken iPhones that are inclined to do that than there are Kindle owners. I think they also hope that many iPhone owners will eventually want a reading device. They want them to buy Kindles rather than one of the competing readers. If they can liberate their books, they might not go for the Kindle regardless of the nifty whispersync thingie.