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Originally Posted by jhowell
And now with KFX Amazon has gone in a far more propriety direction, eliminating HTML as the basis of the format. Apparently being different mainly for the sake of making conversion difficult. Added to that KFX comes with a new, more effective, DRM scheme that they quickly took steps to improve when it was broken recently.
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And this trend should worry anyone who thinks about it for very long. Amazon's trajectory (and not just them, but Google, Facebook, others) is AWAY from the open web, and away from giving the individual more control over his own data and files.
A bit off-topic from the main point of the thread--but germane in that it indicates the trajectory of Amazon away from open and toward closed formats that keep you from accessing and controlling your own data--is this article about Tim Berners-Lee, the actual inventor of the worldwide web. He has created an initiative to take back the open web from the companies like Amazon and Google that are destroying it. One piece of that effort would be restoring the use of open, standard file formats for easy data exchange and interop between applications and cloud services.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/tec...t-magna-carta/
http://webfoundation.org/docs/2018/1...Web-Report.pdf