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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Even the Music publishers realised that DRM had to go.
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Steve Jobs played a big role in that. He pushed the publishers to go DRM-free to create a "iTunes Plus" format that was 256kbps ACC DRM free. The users loved it. And the email and name of whoever purchased the track was stamped into the metadata of the track (this could easily be removed but not for the novice user). The record labels were scared about losing money to piracy (which never really happened). DRM only hurts the end user that paid for the content. Pirates will ALWAYS find a way.
Book publishers could easily do the same. But Amazon is not going to budge without huge pushback from the publishers.
I do, however, support DRM on Kindle Unlimited books as you are renting them and you don't own them. I have a personal rule about never removing DRM from those kinds of books.