Thread: Will K2PC 1.19 and KFX alter your ebook purchasing habits?
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Old 01-10-2017, 02:25 PM   #62
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So in other words FUD. A lot of things might happen. Now that KFX is available on a PC platform it might get de-DRM'd and reverse engineered for conversion to other formats so that it's a non-issue for all I know. Amazon might change their DRM so that even the older formats might not be able to be uninfected (at least temporarily). Kobo might do away with ePub downloads and go straight kePub. Since I can't do anything about any of it, not gonna worry about it unless it happens.
I disagree. Amazon is clearly tightening its walled-garden. It has released a version of K2PC that only downloads KFX if one's device supports that format. As far as I know, and please correct me if I am wrong, eventually Amazon enforces users to use the latest version of K2PC. When that day comes, if you do not own a pre-PW2 device, you will not be able to de-DRM or convert your books.

Question: Is it still possible to use versions of K4PC prior to 1.17?
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