Tech is especially skilled at playing this fortress/prison gambit. 20 years ago, Amazon claimed that publishers who used "digital rights management" for Kindle ebooks and Audible audiobooks would be protected from their real enemy - pirates. But the real threat to publishers was *Amazon*, not pirates. Amazon was the entity hellbent on extracting huge discounts from publishers, even - especially - if it drove those publishers into bankruptcy:
https://www.businessinsider.com/sadistic-amazon-treated-book-sellers-the-way-a-cheetah-would-pursue-a-sickly-gazelle-2013-10
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2024-03-13 15:34:27
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