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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
That's a big if. The Color also allowed easy root, but B&N stopped that this time around. If they were going to allow repartition, it should've happened coming out of the gate.
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Technically, they didn't stop easy root. They just went with a locked boot loader, so root only gets you so far. The rooting process itself is pretty basic.
Based on comments at XDA, it's likely that the locked boot loader is a requirement of having access to Netflix's HD streams. If so, it's a case of DRM strikes again--this time from the studios. Considering the market space it's going into, I can understand B&N's going that way.