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Originally Posted by toddos
Something to keep in mind -- just because we can rip DRM off of most ebooks today (everything but iBooks is broken) doesn't mean we won't be able to rip it off tomorrow. Saying, "DRM is okay because I can remove it," is short-sighted.
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I suspect iBooks DRM will be cracked as soon as Apple comes up with an iBooks reader for computers, rather than iDevices. IIRC, Topaz remained uncracked until the Kindle-for-PC program was released, and then it was quickly cracked.
It's hard (impossible?) to crack the ibook on the ipad, because the ipad doesn't have access to the full array of programming tools that computers can use, and as things stand, I don't think you can get an iBook onto a PC to look at the insides with a hex editor. Even if you can, you can't see the difference between one that's readable by your pc and one that's not, to figure out where/how the device ID gets authenticated.
As soon as iBooks can be read on PCs, someone will take one apart & analyze the code used to lock it, and create a key to either unlock it or copy the contents out. Apple may be fighting to keep iBooks on their devices to avoid this--which is part of why iBook sales aren't high; despite all the lovely mobile devices we've got, most people who read ebooks still read them on desktop or laptop computers.