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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Actually, B&N's DRM requires some DRM server to serve you up an eBook that is chock full of DRM. So if that DRM server is down, you don't get your infected eBook. So yes, B&N also requires the use of DRM servers just like Adobe ad just like everyone else who is serving DRMed eBooks. The only difference is that you do not first have to register with the B&N DRM server. But, if you cannot register with the B&N server, you would not be able to get the eBook anyway. So non of the DRM flavors is any less reliant on a DRM server then the others.
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B&N's DRM requires access to the DRM server at the time you first download the book, just like any other DRM server. The big difference is that you don't need access to the DRM server to read that same file on any other device. B&N's DRM encodes the file with a key that's unique to you, not to the device to which it's being downloaded, and the file doesn't need to be re-encoded for a new device.