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Originally Posted by DaleDe
...if you can't trust a Pastor who can you trust?
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A loaded question if I ever heard one, but...
moving discreetly on 
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Best solution for who? DRM is a fact of life and unless someone can find a better way to satisfy publishers we are stuck with it so get over it.
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It really doesn't sound like STEP was a good solution, any more than the presently-used DRM systems... so why should we expect that DRM is "a fact of life" when no one's set up DRM that results in a profitable system?
In the same way that publishers figured out a way to deal with loss, used book sales, library borrowing, etc, with printed books, they can work out methods to deal with/roll with e-books without DRM. If they can't, they will adopt the system created by someone else (like the independents) that
does work. Big industries (like IBM, GM) seem to be on this track now, anyway--allowing someone else to spend the money on R&D and trial-and-error, then stepping in and licensing their product at less overhead cost.
My impression is that this is exactly what publishers are waiting on, and when somebody demonstrates a DRM-free and profitable system, they'll adopt it. It will take more time without their cooperation, unfortunately, but it will still happen.