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Originally Posted by jhowell
I don't think that Amazon management currently believes that selling e-books without DRM is in their best interest, despite what some publishers may want. I believe that a gradual lock-down is in progress.
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I concede the point--on ebooks sold by Amazon. But I think my point still stands: Amazon is never going to feel overly compelled to check the content, or the provenance of, sideloaded drm-free content by users. Nothing I've seen from them indicates to me that they have any interest whatsoever in becoming an internet content police force.
They've had the access and the technology to detect Amazon content that has had their DRM removed from it since the very beginning (except for those people who've taken extra steps to obfuscate any metadata identifiers). They're interested in keeping their garden wall high enough (and their garden attractive enough) that most people don't try to leave. They're not interested in pursuing--let alone punishing--the trivial number of people who hop their wall. It's not in their best interest.