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Originally Posted by sirmaru
Most folks, who read eBooks, are just interested in READING. They are probably not technophile hobbyists who like to work all kinds of other software products to play around with their eBook files.
Just learning to use their eBook reader is challenge enough. Many probably cannot even master that task and stay with pBooks.
Most of those eReader fans probably don't even know what DRM means much less try to remove it.
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This is an enormous generalization that can barely be proven. There are certainly consumers who do and don't break DRM, and prospective consumers chased away by vendor lock-in, and actual pragmatic reasons to break DRM (vendor lock-in made iTunes DRM breaking tasks fairly mainstream), that the whole situation is anything but simple.
Add to that the notion that eBooks may be or become a niche market (which continues to be debated to an endless apathy), where users of devices can be expected to have a general understanding of their technology. The smaller the market, the more in-depth each customer tends to be. This is not proof that DRM is often broken, just an illustration of the complex situation.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The vagueness in this case IS, I think, the potential victory here. I believe in some countries of the EU, DRM removal (for whatever reason) is considered illegal. Period. This casts doubt that didn't exist (in those locations) before.
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Doubt has the potential to open a door, but will it actually be used and will it stay open? I strongly doubt it.