"Why is Amazon doing this? It’s a feature not many people use and those who do, commit e-book piracy."
What one earth is wrong with the people who write this kind of garbage?
What one earth is wrong with the people who write this kind of garbage?
it's not targeting the ebook pirates who knows about libgen, it's just meant to annoy the people who borrow an ebook from their library and want to keep it an extra couple days by turning off their kindle's wifi. that's what they mean by "piracy".
you can still download mobi files all over the internet and transfer them onto your kindle
It's still stupid because basically any book can be pirated in about 10 minutes with a knife and a sheetfed document scanner.
I think that might be the point people miss.
Perhaps the other people didn't miss the point at all.
Here are some essential facts to know.
- You can continue to use Calibre to send Kindle books to your Kindle
"Download & Transfer via USB"
on Feb 26 "Download" goes away, which was the typical way people got their kindle books into calibre.
They're employees of scummy companies that also happen to exist largely to sell Amazon products. This site (goodereader) sells a lot of Kindles in their store, and you don't have to do much googling to see how former customers feel about them. Of course they're Amazon lackeys.
Edit: It's been interesting to watch the votes on this comment swing up and down so much. Lots of activity but overall pretty split opinions it seems!
The part about it not being something many use is probably true in percentage terms. The part about it being used for piracy is hard to prove. Piracy in this context would likely be giving it to others - I personally think it's unlikely.
DRM is unacceptable. If I can't remove it I won't buy at all.
> same. I've bought it. I'm reading it on my kindle, phone, Linux laptop, etc and nobody's going to stop me.
Technically piracy (not that I particularly care). Technically in the USA removing DRM is also piracy, so I guess they're right? Again, don't actually care and would do the same, but I find your response ironic.
The law is pretty complicated though. I think if it's for yourself it's fair use, but 17 U.S. Code § 1201 says otherwise. I'm not a lawyer, sad.
Piracy is ill-defined and so it's hard to say what is or isn't for such an informal term, but even if it weren't: removing the DRM of stuff you purchased legally, and for your own use, is not "piracy" by any reasonable use of the word.
It might be illegal, but it's not piracy.
It even happens with animals of rare breed. They neuter them before sale.