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In the legal field, it's simply how you work. Period. It's not unusual or even slightly odd. The "everybody has to agree" language isn't about "we will deny you permission," it's about liability. Amazon's saying that they want the Publisher to expressly state that they do not want DRM, and they are saying that they, Amazon, want to expressly affirm that they have received notice thereof, so that if a book gets set loose in the wild, and gets pirated, and the publisher wants to come back on Amazon, in a lawsuit, as some part of it, that they cannot.
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Hadn't thought of it from the pov of liability, I guess it does make a lot of sense to have the default cover your backside.
As said in a previous post though, it's a mountain out of a molehill as long as when an author or publisher does say we want no DRM, amazon makes it simple to sign a contract doing so.