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Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books (goodereader.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

For real.

When I still had Netflix and Disney+ I'd want to watch a show on my PC, but I'd just get black screen with only audio, because something about my setup the DRM didn't like. (Possibly that I have USB displaylink monitors.)

So I had to watch on another device.

DRM isn't stopping content being ripped. It's just making life a pain for paying customers.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Offering a clean, ad free, usable storefront to purchase media would do more to prevent piracy than anything.

    But corpos dont like that.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That could've been iTunes if their interface didn't suck ass and if they didn't go for the subscription-only model in Apple Music.

    I swear for years it was THE place to buy music. I mean I never did, I didn't have access to a card with online payments enabled as a teen, so I just pirated everything anyway. But it seemed like the default place.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Of course. It's all about control. They see users as property, an object to be sold and traded.

    Do not ever allow yourselves to be disrespected like this.

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