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Originally Posted by bwaldron
Yes, Amazon is acting very Apple-like, and I don't mean that as a compliment.
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Yep. And I wonder how many of the folks here saying they want to dump their Kindles still love their iPods. I don't own an iPod and I buy my music DRM-free because there are enough options to do that. With books, there just aren't enough of the books I like available without DRM so I make the compromise. I don't like it, but I'm hoping that if enough of us support ebooks, we will eventually move the market to the same level of sanity we're now starting to see in music. I debated waiting until I could get books without compromising this principle, but the ebook market just doesn't have the strength of the music market. I figured if I wanted to help it succeed, I needed to invest early. The fact is, I'm going to be buying books with DRM regardless of whether it's from Amazon or Sony or Fictionwise. DRM is evil and I'm participating in the evil.
As many have said, Amazon seems to be going after KindlePID, not KindleFix and even though igorsk didn't write it to be used to crack DRM, it is used to do so. They didn't send us a DMCA takedown for the cracking script because we've been quite circumspect in not allowing linking to it. It will be as futile as all Apple's DMCA takedowns. It's out there and they won't get rid of it. For all the people here saying Amazon is keeping you from buying other content, it's no more so than Apple. You can put other music on your iPod if it's DRM-free. You can put other books on your Kindle if they're DRM-free. So while I don't like either of their DRM policies, if you're getting rid of your Kindle over this, you should probably get rid of your iPod, too.