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Originally Posted by darryl
I agree. I don't want Amazon to be the only game in town. Right now I can buy their exclusive titles and convert and read them on any device I choose. I am concerned about both .kfx and the new Adobe drm. But I do get sick of the Amazon is the devil crowd and the scare-mongering that goes on. We certainly don't have a big problem in the short term, and likely not even in the medium term. But it is certainly a concern that in the longer term we may eventually face a situation where ebook drm is effective, with the resultant loss of freedom that entails. Hopefully that will then result in an increased incentive for hackers to break the formats/drm concerned, which of course is what has happened in the past.
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One faint hope is, that there will be a backslash to all these walled gardens some time. I kind of understand it regarding apps for example, not from a walled garden view, but because of hardware, compiling etc. Music for example has no drm, partly I think because people like to own it, collect it and want to have access to it, regardless if the vendor gets out of business or whatever. I like to think that books are similar. Not for the people HarryT always mentions, but for many many booklovers. I still have hundreds of books.
With the coming of digital products, there was a loss of consumer rights. It was/is new, and companies lobbied for special rules and since it was a niche market, politicians had no clue etc. they got their will. It is sad, but hopefully consumer rights will evolve. I just have still the impression, that politicians (at least in germany) don't know much about this strange thing called internet, apart from that they need to have a facebook page and a twitter account to appeal to the "young people".