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Originally Posted by tomsem
Apologies if this has been pointed out before, but this seems to be mostly about retiring MOBI and KF8 and fully transitioning to the various flavors of KFX, so they can shut down the services that provide it.
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Not really. It's about updating the apps, which for a long time have been KFX.
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Originally Posted by tomsem
Some of you might remember that Adobe released unlicensed versions of (I think) Creative Suite 2, that anyone could download and use. I was working on the licensing team at the time. The key service was running on Windows 2000 Server or something and it was tied to certain unique hardware IDs of that specific machine, and it was no longer feasible to provide updates to the software and be able to switch to a different key server.
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The mobi/azw and azw3 doesn't use the Adobe method of a server. It's a very simple scheme that encrypts the file using the serial ID of the particular eink Kindle chosen as the download target for later USB transfer. That software can easily be migrated to newer servers.
There are situations that use ereaders where WiFi isn't permitted or isn't available. The desktop OS computer might be used to manage many physical Kindles and/or accounts with no removal of DRM.
KFX is about more than DRM.
Amazon various DRM systems are not the same thing as Adobe DRM. Amazon once used Adobe and then abandoned it.