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Originally Posted by odamizu
I agree that they've been monitoring all along, but it never felt like they were monitoring with this much attention before. The speed at which they've responded to v6.8 is startling. I don't recall them ever taking such immediate action to clamp down a new version before.
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I think this is partly because they have prepared for it and therefore can. As mentioned, I think their Pearson textbook business would be under threat without secure DRM. With 1.27 and 1.28 they had version 4 inactive but all ready to go. All they had to do was start encrypting with version 4 and prevent downloads of Pearson textbooks to 1.26 and before. The next version will no doubt have version 5 ready to go if version 4 is cracked, and so on. I expect Amazon will in future continue to respond very quickly. kfx is not a good conversion format in any event. The existing situation is very satisfactory and will remain so as long as Amazon allows the download of kf8 files for most books.