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My fight with Amazon Unbox - Alpha Blog - alpha.cnet.com

After the Install Shield launched and I chose uninstall, I got a login screen for my Amazon account. I just wanted to uninstall it. I shouldn’t have to log in to my account to do that. So I canceled the login, and the uninstall failed. I tried that three times, and it failed each time. Finally I gave up and logged in and the uninstall finished.

A few things here:

Why is he surprised that unbox has stupid restrictive DRM? While I agree that DRM sucks, and think it’s pointless, the lawyers that rule this world love it. They think it protects their companies. Until the companies get wise and fire the lawyers DRM is here to stay.

He tried to uninstall it three times and it failed each time. I don’t know what it is with Windows users, but they feel the need to try the same steps a few times to see if the process suddenly starts working. I’d consider something terribly amiss if I followed the same steps for the third time and it magically started working on the third attempt.

Let’s just wait a month or so and someone will probably figure out how to crack the unbox DRM, then we can have our movies and watch them too.