Thread: Adobe Digital Editions--Aaaarrrr!
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Old 01-20-2011, 02:48 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by gentlemanbeggar View Post
Well, thanks to Adobe's ineptitude, the ebook reader world has potentially lost a very lucrative customer. TWGW (The World's Greatest Wife) has sworn off e-reading entirely because of a glitch in the Adobe DRM. She bought a book last night from the Kobo site. It was an Adobe Digital Editions ePub. Well, she went to download the file and when ADE came up, it asked her to activate her computer (like it has every time she's opened the program)--so she typed in her adobeID and password...

"Too many activations"

So now, we have to submit a trouble ticket to Adobe and ask them to reset her activations. That will allow her to get the book, but after she logs into the program 5 or 6 times, she's just going to get locked out again. I've searched the web and the only discussion I can find of this same issue had its last post over a year ago. The only solution I've seen thus far is advice from a senior adobe tech saying "create a new user account and reinstall ADE under that user name." ಠ_ಠ

I really despise DRM. It's stuff like this that makes honest people into pirates.
I'm thinking there is something wrong with your computer. I have ADE installed and activated on two different computers and neither of them ever ask for me to activate it. So try to find out what's wrong with your computer. The info for the activation is stored in the registry. What version of Windows unless you are on a MAC.
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