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Originally Posted by davedeacon
I find it hard to believe publisher are demanding they stop supporting pre-2012 devices because of DRM concerns. And even if they did, Amazon could simply not make those books available in their store and simply put a message "not compatible with any of your devices".
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It's not the publishers. It's Amazon, because they don't want people taking their exclusive content out of their ecosystem, including uploading it to illegal sites. The reason I'm sure about that is because it's all part of a pattern - they've been closing the holes for DRM removal for a long while now. Disabling the old pre-KFX Kindles is part of this pattern, not an individual act.
First they stopped all the old versions of the PC app from downloading newly published books (those versions can still download books published before the cut-off date perfectly well). Then they ditched the download & transfer, which allowed people to download copies of their purchased books to their computers. Then they disabled the old versions of the Android app which were used for DRM removal back then. Next, they improved the DRM for their eink Kindles. Then for the PC app. Again for the eink Kindles (because the previous version got decrypted). A few MR members predicted that the next, obvious step would be to disable all the old, pre-KFX Kindle models... and voilą, here it is! I'm pretty sure that the next step will be disabling the PC app altogether, because it can still be used to remove the DRM.