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Too much moralizing
I've just bought a kindle PW5 from Amazon, new. I have not turned on wifi and flight mode will stay on indefinitely to protect my privacy.
All I want is an ereader. No Amazon store, no remote logging, no updates, no wireless features. A basic feature to sort my books into folders/collections is essential.
Imagine my surprise to discover Amazon has included an anti-feature that disables collections until I 'register' *my* device.
Imagine your PC disabling email until you registered it with IBM.
Imagine your car disabling reverse until you registered it with Toyota.
Imagine your fridge disabling defrost cycle until you registered it with LG.
Imagine your oven disabling self-clean until you registered it with GE.
Imagine your lawn mower disabling the catcher until you registered it with Honda.
...and this just might be the future with the Internet of Things (IoT).
And then imagine finding the hacker community around those devices parroting some nonsense about 'just register - it stops theft' o.0 LOL.
If you want to stop theft, then let Amazon stop it first by making registration an anti-theft feature only, which it currently is not.
The kindle is anti-featured to coerce the consumer into registering! - and that is reason enough to never register and hack around it wherever possible - to liberate the device back to its owner, which is the person who has it in their possession NOT Amazon.
If my device *is* stolen, I'd rather it got used and didn't go to e-waste, remote bricking or anti-featuring stolen devices should be illegal, so too should the manufacturer selling an anti-featured device.
What's even the point of this community then, custom screensavers and fonts? lol.
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