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Breaking free from big tech and big content with authors Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin

Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Do You Know That DRM Doesn't Work?

The law against breaking DRM has encouraged firms to make shittier and shittier DRM, he says. The best way to increase revenue is like offering good product at a good price, writes Bezos. "If you want to protect your music, it's going to have to be on our terms," Amazon told record labels when they tried to put DRM on their iPods in the '90s,. He adds that Kindle was self-published with Random House distributing e-books through Audible.

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