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Old 04-24-2011, 11:43 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by chyron8472 View Post
That's still assuming it's enforceable at all in the first place.
All laws are enforceable. It would just come down to how cost effective it would be and what they thought they would gain from doing it. Publishers must see some hidden value in DRM that we can't see, otherwise they wouldn't use it.

I would also guess that Amazon included the DRM status check in the Kindle firmware for the benefit of those publishers, since I can't see what use that information would be to Amazon for marketing purposes. Everything else they log (except maybe GPS position) could be used for profiling purposes to target future recommendations. DRM status would be irrelevant for that purpose.
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