I'm not sure I agree that all laws are enforceable. I mean I think that a law has to be considered reasonable for them to be enforceable. And some laws aren't enforced because they are only considered reasonable under certain circumstances. I mean technically there are laws against spitting on the sidewalk for example, but how often do you see it being enforced? The reason (I think) that that law is seldom enforced is that it was made law back when influenza was a potentially fatal problem (back around WWI) and they were worried about it being passed on. Likewise I think the publishers would have to prove that their claims were reasonable for DRM laws to be enforceable. I expect their arguments to eventually implode myself. If I buy something I expect to be able to use it as I see fit. Publishers don't like it then it's their problem.
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
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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