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Originally Posted by HarryT
Don't forget that using igorsk's tool, being, er, vigorously discussed in this thread, one can buy any MobiPocket DRM book and read it on a Kindle, perfectly legally. The tool allows you to add the Kindle as one of the devices that the book is encoded for. |
Harry, the legality is an open question. I agree that looked at logically it probably *should be* legal, but I have learned through hard experience that the law rarely has anything to do with logic.
Also, Amazon could disable this hack any time they want by simply commanding their mobi subsidiary to stop recognizing kindle PIDs (they are easily identifiable) for any ebook retailer besides the kindle store.
So people who buy mobi drm books from non-amazon sources might be surprised to find they won't really work on kindle sometime in the near future.
In addition, Amazon's terms of service apparently gives them the right to snoop around on your kindle wirelessly. If they start finding non-kindle-store drm mobi books on your kindle, it's quite possible they could "brick" your device like Apple did recently to iphone hackers. Remember that Bezos is extremely anamoured with how Apple does business, he could also have studied how Apple bricked a bunch of hacked iphones and decide that's the way to go.
Bottom line: using this hack is frought with risks for the consumer, that range from simple inability to read books purchased elsewhere, to possible loss of your kindle, depending on how heavy handed Amazon decides to be.