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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
@ Sylvania ( I like your moniker, it means something like 'from the woods') 
Your views are pretty interesting.
I'd like to add something to them. If Sony were to remove their proprietary formats and DRM or at least offer more format choices, they might be very close to top. |
Well, I agree that would be great for them, but look at the history of sony and you'll see that's very unlikely.
Yes they would sell more hardware if they opened up formats, or at least allowed other retailers to sell DRM titles onto their device. But that's not the way they think. The way they think is, they want to make all the money on the ebook content as well as the hardware.
They can't get rid of DRM, the publishers will not allow it. At least the big publishers won't. Besides, being a content provider themselves on the DVD side, they love DRM and see nothing wrong with it.