http://comments.deasil.com/2007/08/25/poor-microsoft/ escape colon w q Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:38:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/08/25/poor-microsoft/#comment-4763 Amazon, free with the DRM Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:53:44 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/08/25/poor-microsoft/#comment-4763 [...] One interesting thing here, though, is that they are also using a restrictive DRM on the content - rather than using the open standard format for e-books they are using their more proprietary mobipocket format. Amazon bought Mobipocket so it has ultimate control of it - the good news is that it is pretty widely spread now with many devices and software capable of reading it. The bad news is that it seems to be a server based DRM system, a server that has gone down in the past - the results of which were inconvenient but not catastrophic as when that Microsoft WGA system went down. [...] [...] One interesting thing here, though, is that they are also using a restrictive DRM on the content - rather than using the open standard format for e-books they are using their more proprietary mobipocket format. Amazon bought Mobipocket so it has ultimate control of it - the good news is that it is pretty widely spread now with many devices and software capable of reading it. The bad news is that it seems to be a server based DRM system, a server that has gone down in the past - the results of which were inconvenient but not catastrophic as when that Microsoft WGA system went down. [...]

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