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Originally Posted by Xenophon
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That is very possibly an accurate depiction of the various motivations of the involved parties. That doesn't change the big picture: DRM was used until people realized it wasn't necessary. It was needed in order to palliate the music industry, but once they realized that the lack of DRM didn't decrease music sales, they went with getting rid of it.
Amazon may be in a similar boat: they are going to have to deal with publishers who are not going to want to risk the loss of sales to piracy, but they may eventually find that DRM has minimal impact on sales, and may in fact restrict sales more than help them. And, IMO, no DRM may increase sales because it broadens your customer base. I suppose this technically remains to be seen, since iTMS is only recently un-DRM'ed.