Thread: People who want no DRM are impractical dreamers...
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Old 03-18-2011, 10:33 AM   #44
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Finally, DRM is a bomb with a timer. When years from now people start shifting (for whatever reason) from one DRM system to another and discover it impossible to read their books on the new device... I can only speculate what will happen, but it won't be beautiful.
What will happen most likely is they will have to re-purchase them. Just like most people re-purchased music when it moved from LP to CD.
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