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Originally Posted by EricWiz
you know who I blame for it?
US! You and me. We allow it to happen. The Itunes store was DRM for ever and did that stop people from buying Ipods? No. Best selling MP3 EVER!
Same thing will happen here. People will buy up the Kindle cuz it from Amazon and ohhhh ahhhh isn't it nifty! I for one will never buy a Kindle now. But many many many others will.
The only way to correct this sort of thing is to vote with your pocket book and the bottom line is no one cares. They will buy anyway.
Ah well.... just more of the same really.
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Yet, interestingly, iTunes is now DRM free (or nearly there). So if it's truly more of the same, I guess we'll eventually get somewhere good. I am not surprised by Amazon's move at all. Even if they don't really mind people using their Kindles a bit more liberally, they have to aggressively defend their DRM otherwise it might create a disadvantageous legal precedent for when there is a legitimate infringement made upon them.