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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Yes, but Amazon is .... good at it.
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Not as good at it as Sony. All the other "DRM" scams get cracked as soon
as they show up on the ebooks of the larger stores. Adobe's Adept and
Amazon's schemes are, like Microsoft's OS, are a priority for hackers
because they are the most used. The B&N "DRM" scam is just a matter
of breaking the hash algorithm they used, once that was done, it is a
trivial matter to get a clean file, using the known data used to create the
hash.
The bottom line is that Amazon sells a high enough percentage of the total
ebook market to make it unlikely that any "DRM" scam it adopts will stand
for long. That they continue to do as much as they can is not for any
Digital Rights Management - DRM purpose (that bad idea is done away with
by the ebooks being sold at other stores, with other DRM) but by their
continued attempts to "lock-in" their customers. (Hasn't Amazon retaliated
against authors who offered their works through their own sites?)
Luck;
Ken