Talk:Amazon

Public information about their DRM in Amazon Music

Hi, while I was looking at some information about their codec usage, I stumbled upon this official documentation page that states the insufferable amount of stuff that your device must comply with in order to be allowed to play their music: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/music/playback_overview.html

Besides the Widevine section, this paragraph in the Prerequisites section is the most baffling one: "Playback must NOT occur on any computing platform or device where the end user has the ability to install any custom software; gain access to the file system; or install alternate trusted certificates that may be used to validate an HTTPS request."

While this is not really new information, it is good to have an official source linked here in case someone wants to fully document this.

Anonymous(talk) 12:24, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Note

Heads up, when I was working on listing some of the controversies Amazon has been in charge of, I did lump together controversies that happened before 2024, if there's anything particularly egregious, or should be merged in, please feel free to do so! JamesTDG (talk) 09:39, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Worker's rights and this wiki

The brief mention of workers currently present in the overview of Amazon is fine as context for the company, but I just wanted to pre-empt potential issues and reiterate that this Wiki is not the place to discuss employee rights issues (or wider social/environmental issues for that matter). Nothing wrong with discussing them in general, and they are very important, just that featuring them here would represent a substantial expansion of the wiki's scope, and it is not something we aim to achieve.

  -Keith