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Originally Posted by stonetools
This site is full of that. DRM is a copyright protection scheme. Some people remove DRM for entirely innocent purposes. Many more do because they intend to violate copyright. The law is aimed at the second group, and cares little about the first...........Maybe I'm just thick-skinned, and don't understand that storeowners should never take precautions to protect their property, because that would be branding the customers as potential thieves.
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Perhaps Amazon don't know that a lot of the books they "protect" with DRM are already out there, legally and illegally, some free, some cheaper, some dearer.
No, their DRM arguments are, in short, a load of cobblers.
The only reason they use DRM - as I see it - is to get most people buying their reader, to read the material they are "protecting" because they don't want readers buying it - that is , handing their money over - from anyone else.
Whether the material is original or not.
[Given a chance, they'd probably like to DRM all public domain stuff - for themselves.]
Amazon's market ideal, surely, is total monopoly.