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Amazon waves DMCA in Kindle channel lock-down

 
Bans e-book shopping at own store Amazon has invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to prevent distribution of software for extracting the personal identifier from a Kindle, used by those wanting to shop at the Amazon-owned Mobipocket store.… (link)

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