Thread: Amazon uses DMCA to restrict where you can buy e-books
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Old 03-14-2009, 01:54 PM   #317
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Originally Posted by slayda View Post
And this could be something as simple as changing the PID for your Kindle via Whispernet. Then unless you turn Whispernet on to "accept" the change, you have no way of reading any newly downloaded ebooks because they have a different PID. So when you turn on Wispernet, they "update" your firmware to a new, more crippled version.
New Rule - Whispernet is permanently off on my kindles. If my daughter does need to buy a school book from Amazon, it will be downloaded to my computer and moved via USB. Why should I ever turn on whispernet again?
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