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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I suspect it's because the Publishers don't have a clause in their contracts with the DRM supplies stating that the DRM suppliers must patch any breaks in the DRM system within a certain time frame.
It seems certain that the big music publishers had such a clause in their contracts with Apple.
Paul
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Is this known or just speculation?
The way I see, it's about who benefits? Apple DRM benefited Apple first and foremost by locking people to iPods and that's where they made their money, not in songs.
Let us see - when drm got ditched, was Apple the first or the last to do it - and forget bs pr from Jobs and other company spokesmen - Apple had a big vested interest in drm, record companies did not and they figured it out at some point though it took a lot of wall headbutting...
With e-books it will depend on what their sellers make their money on and what relation is between them and the device makers.
If Amazon wants to make the serious money on Kindles, then just be sure they will be last to ditch drm, whatever Bezos and his cohorts claim...
Publishers again are the ones with the least interest in drm as long as they want to sell ebooks, and sooner or later they will get it; of course right now they really do not want to sell ebooks, so all the ridiculous things we see:
http://www.ereads.com/2009/03/penetr...k-pricing.html