billtaichi

April 23, 2009 at 4:14am

I have a Kindle and I do think the DRM is ridiculous but I would point out that it is NOT true that you can't read books from other places , I have got many books from webscriptions.net and other sites.  

I can read any book in the mobi format.   I also can have many documents converted into mobi format either by amazon or I can do it myself with free software.   I would say about 35% of the books I have read on my Kindle did not come from Amazon.    I see so many people who think the Kindle only allows you to read books from amazon and that simply is not true, if it were I would not be near as happy with my purchase.

comptech08

March 16, 2009 at 9:12am

I still don't think a company should still have any type of control over a device that has already been sold.  Once they sell it, it is now the Consumers to do whatever he/she wants to do with it.

Tekzel

March 18, 2009 at 5:46pm

Well, it was posted by another person, but worth repeating.  They care because it allows people to use content purchased elsewhere on the device, which Amazon hates the idea of.  They love vendor lock-in, just like any other content distribution service.  They hate competition and avoid it when they can.

Now, as to whether it is right or wrong, that is eventually going to be up to the courts to decide.  Depending on who buys what politician, it can go either way.