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Ninjalawyer · 05-20-2012, 06:32 PM

The publishing industry seems to be relearning the hard way all of the lessons that the music industry learned years ago. All their insistence on DRM has managed to accomplish is to help Amazon lock people into the Kindle ecosystem and stymie competition, helping Amazon to become the great bogeyman they so hate. Frankly, it's a little pathetic that they're only now considering maybe having a conversation about a slightly different form of DRM.

I guess any progress, no matter how glacial, is still progress.

05-20-2012, 06:32 PM	#3
Ninjalawyer Guru Posts: 826 Karma: 18573626 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Touch, Nexus 7 (2013)	The publishing industry seems to be relearning the hard way all of the lessons that the music industry learned years ago. All their insistence on DRM has managed to accomplish is to help Amazon lock people into the Kindle ecosystem and stymie competition, helping Amazon to become the great bogeyman they so hate. Frankly, it's a little pathetic that they're only now considering maybe having a conversation about a slightly different form of DRM. I guess any progress, no matter how glacial, is still progress. Last edited by Ninjalawyer; 05-21-2012 at 03:29 AM.