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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I'd say providers use proprietary formats to create customer lock-in more than DRM. DRM, though intended for security, mostly just helps to cement the lock-in. But as it does it in more of a threatening way, it turns off customers.
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That is only true if it is a very complicated format that is hard to program for. For the ebook formats it is the DRM that is the lock-in since it is easy to convert between different formats and get a useful result.