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Originally Posted by HarryT
The action was almost certainly triggered by the recent release of the Kindle iPhone application. "KindlePID" can be used as a part of a toolchain to allow one to buy books from the Kindle store and read them on an iPhone even if one doesn't own a Kindle, and that was never the intended use of it.
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You don't need a Kindle to buy Kindle books and read them on the iPhone with the kindle app.
I agree that it was triggered by the release of the iPhone app... with more people able to purchase the books there are more people able to strip the DRM if they get the PID. The number of people who'll buy a $300ish device, buy books, and distribute them online is probably lower than the number of people who'll buy a free app for a device they already own, buy books, and distribute them.