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Originally Posted by chaley
No.
Those are small control files that tell ADE to download a DRM-infested file. ADE uses them to negotiate with the server, providing your adobe id, verifying geographic restrictions, and finally re-encrypting with your personal key and downloading it.
All of this is part of the infrastructure that most publishers insist upon because as everyone knows, we readers who buy books are all cheats, tramps, and thieves.
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But this was a LIBRARY book that the OP ?borrowed? for a short time period and is what I consider the only reasonable use of DRM, since it is a non-owned book.