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Originally Posted by McNutt
DRM exists to protect the copyright. For the most part, publishers use DRM to prevent widespread sharing of their work, not to limit the individual user, which is often an unfortunate side effect. While the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibits the distribution of any method to circumvent DRM, removing DRM for your own private use has been looked at by the courts as fair use, so long as you own the original material.
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I am not entirely sure that the only reason they use DRM is to protect copyright. They also have an interest in preventing customers from reselling the product.
Certainly I think that Amazon's insistence on using a propriatary DRM scheme is to achieve customer lock in. Most people will never remove the DRM. So when it comes time to replace their Kindle, they will have to get another Kindle if they want to continue to read their books which means they will continue to buy books from Amazon.
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Bill