I bet it was exactly like this: 1. Kindle-wipe Story on Hackernews. 2. One engineer at Amazon saw the story, told it some Executive above him 3. The Executiv

I bet it was exactly like this: 1. Kindle-wipe Story on Hackernews. 2. One engineer at Amazon saw the story, told it some Executive above him 3. The Executive "nerds, let them talk THIS is real business!" 4. One day later "How To Strip DRM from Kindle E-Books and Others (wired.com)" on Hackernews 5. The Executive "OH SNAP! REOPEN REOPEN REOPEN!!11"