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This thread is now monstrous, I wish I had been able to keep up with it. I don't know if the MR wizards are still on top of it, but this story has been posted on Engadget, which conveniently showed a copy of the cease & desist letter.
It looks pretty generic, and it's not directly from Amazon. I wonder if the lawyers who sent it are legitimately on retention from Amazon, or if this is a case of an independent law firm trying to shop a case to Amazon.
Something similar happened in Germany with Adobe, where a law firm sent out a vicious C&D to someone who developed something that Adobe really had no interest in shutting down. They later apologized.
Of course, that could totally not be the case here. Maybe Jeff Bezos himself crafted this move. It might be (or might have been) worth checking out, though.
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