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First we're talking about iPods not Macs - always were.
However, Apple blocks non-Apple iPhone apps like Amazon has blocked content from outside their store up until last week... Apple hasn't taken legal action against the jailbrakers or unlockers - they haven't forced the sites with the downloads for the jailbreaking or unlocking downloads to pull their software either. However a mobile phone carrier did take legal action against an unlocker.
It's one thing to make firmware changes that disable or block hacks, if you don't want folks cracking your device don't leave the holes in the code that let them do it... But to leave the holes and instead take legal action to block users from taking advantage of device functionality is lazyness.
Using the scripts in question don't break or circumvent any form of copy protection that's on the device or even built in to the Kindle's OS. Amazon's copy protection isn't being circumvented.
As for Apple going after those who seek to load OS-X on non-Apple machines, well Apple for better or worse decided long ago to stop allowing Mac clones and don't license their software to those who would clone their systems. In the meantime these folks are in fact circumventing copy protection that has been put in place to prevent OS-X from being loaded on non-Apple hardware.
Don't get me wrong, I think Apple's behavior can definitely be considered anti-competitive and they've done more than their fair share of anti-consumer moves, but Amazon's mishandling of Mobileread can't be compared with Apple...
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