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Old 10-15-2010, 05:18 PM   #197
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Originally Posted by Shaggy View Post
In essence, you're both right. Amazon acquired the DRM scheme from Mobipocket, but they effectively "rolled their own" by altering it slightly and hosting their own server to handle the kindle DRM. It's not "standard" Mobipocket in the sense that you can't buy Mobipocket DRM content elsewhere and have it work without jumping through some hoops. The PID ranges are different, for one thing.
Okay, I sit partially corrected, and thanks for the update.

My basic point was that Amazon's DRM is intended to lock you into Amazon as the vendor, and whether Amazon wrote their own DRM solution or modified someone else's doesn't affect that premise.
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