Unfortunately the publishing industry seems to have learned little from the experiences of the software and music industries. There is no point in going to war with your own customer base by harassing your customers with restrictive license agreements and clunky DRM restrictions. The legal option has to be more attractive than the alternative of downloading books from some server in Russia. The customer who has to fiddle with his files and requires a DRM-cracking software just because he has switched from Kindle to Sony-Reader will start to wonder why he hasn't downloaded the books from the net in the first place and saved himself all that trouble.
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