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Old 07-09-2010, 04:46 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by emoorman View Post
One more thing, what is this DRM "crap" with everyone having a different one? Talk about killing the concept. Seems to me like we ought to have a Standard DRM (or none) and format.

Computers were like this until the IBM PC came along and published their specs. Most of you are too young to remember CP/M. Who's the biggest ebook seller. I'd have to guess Amazon. What if they published their specs and DRM and said, "Let's all get together and sell books." Except Apple, of course-they don't join anybody.
I cut my teeth on CP/M, back in 1982.

You don't understand, it is just like VHS vs Betamax. All the ebook publishers want to have a standard DRM. It's just that they all want their own DRM to be the standard, and nobody is willing to budge.
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