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Originally Posted by Barcey
Your example is related to regional protection and I understand that DRM is larger then copy protection. The vendors feel it is their right to digitally manage the region that the software can run in and they are open about why they are doing it.
I don't think that Amazon would claim that it is their right to restrict competition and something that their DRM is designed to enforce.
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signifigance of the region, apart from the content controls themselves.
It is Amazon's right, and in their business model certainly in their best interest, to constrain competitor bookseller's from "their" platform.
Think of the Kindle as a Macintosh. Its a market of vertical integration, "enforced" with a rights management scheme ("a different door") as opposed to a more commodity hardware horizontal model ("many paths to the same door")