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different physical carriers cost money to make, as opposed to a software file
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So you believe software files grow on trees? Just because they aren't physical doesn't mean their production doesn't cost any labour/manpower and eventually money. My ...
But you already lost me on the
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Too bad if you're elsewhere in the world, but the US is the cradle of technosocial and business innovation, so you'll have to look up to us and follow the lead
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It's 2009, not 1969 ... the USA aren't neither technologically nor economically or socially leading in any kind. Wake up. And Amazon's but one company. Big in the US, of some market share worldwide, but nothing more than a distributor or large wholesale store.
So any of their decisons won't have that much of an implication on an international level.
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DRM is the publishers' decision
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simply isn't correct. While most publishers wholeheartedly accept the DRM on their titles, it's Amazon's technology and Amazon's business decision to implement DRM.