Amazon asserts its "rights" on the Kindle
A significant concern I have about the Kindle 2 is that Amazon can do whatever it wants with regard to the owners’ use of the device. They can willynilly change the terms of service and harm owners’ interests without any recourse. I wrote about this in my March 3, 2009 post Amazon’s Kindle 2 Reconsidered.
Yesterday more evidence that Amazon is not a benevolent despot appeared at Amazon invokes DMCA against Kindle e-books from other vendors -
…This week, an e-book Web site said Amazon.com invoked the 1998 law to prevent books from some non-Amazon sources from working on its Kindle reader.
Amazon sent a legal notice to MobileRead.com complaining that information relating to a computer utility written in the Python programming language “constitutes a violation” of the DMCA, according to a copy of the warning letter that the site posted. MobileRead.com is an e-book news and community site. …