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Although there were valid reasons (these were unauthorized copies), this episode is going to indelibly taint the Kindle in the eyes of the increasingly greater number of people who aren’t keen on DRM-like restrictions on media and have reservations about the new definitions of “ownership” afforded by online distribution of content. After all, like Mark Pilgrim remarked, “Code doesn’t just appear. Amazon DESIGNED the Kindle’s remote wipe. Someone coded it & tested it.” - and it would be naïve to assume similar abilities aren’t part of many other content distribution methods.