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NatCh · 03-12-2009, 06:27 PM

But what they're aggressively defending here is not their DRM, but their DRM's effectiveness in locking Kindle owners into buying books only from Amazon.

That's not, strictly speaking, a legal issue ... unless one wants to wander into the possible anti-trust aspects of it.

03-12-2009, 06:27 PM	#123
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	But what they're aggressively defending here is not their DRM, but their DRM's effectiveness in locking Kindle owners into buying books only from Amazon. That's not, strictly speaking, a legal issue ... unless one wants to wander into the possible anti-trust aspects of it.