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Originally Posted by odamizu
Given how aggressive Amazon has gotten and noDRM's understandable caution in not making the beta or alpha versions official, gotta wonder, if anyone does figure out the next breakthrough, how widely they will share.
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Amazon chooses to maintain the integrity of Kindle DRM, apparently in an effort to lock customers in to their platform. That is in sharp contrast to Kobo who focus more on customer satisfaction and do not seem to be concerned that their DRM is easily defeated.
Amazon's lock in strategy has had two sides for the past ten years. First, maintain the integrity of KFX DRM. Amazon has learned a lot over the years and each generation of their DRM has become more difficult to defeat. I agree that the effort involved makes those who manage to accomplish it less likely to share their results widely.
Second, do away with the older Kindle formats instead of updating their DRM. That has been a slow process but appears to be moving forward more quickly now. Since devices that do not support KFX are coming up on ten years of age that may be a milestone in their retirement.
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Originally Posted by odamizu
Also wondering how much threads like this one contributed to the aggressive action (and I say that as the OP and maintainer of the first post  ) |
This thread and others like it that spread the news about DRM removal may be a factor, but is very likely that noDRM's GitHub repository is the primary resource being monitored by Amazon's engineers. NoDRM may be correct that avoiding an official release delayed Amazon's response for awhile but it was always just a matter of time before they again took steps to block DRM removal.