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Old 06-23-2011, 01:39 PM   #248
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It is DRM; it's generally called "social DRM". eReader have been using it for many years - you have to unlock an eReader book with the number of the credit card used to purchase it.
Right, B&N uses this.

But -- and this is crucial to me, perhaps wrongly so -- the CC# isn't stored in the epub file which is sent over the 3G/WiFi.

As far as I know, if you hacked my computer and grabbed my downloaded B&N books, you wouldn't be able to extract my CC# from my epub copy of "Vampire Little Women.

Am I wrong?

ALSO: If Digital Watermarks are DRM, and I think they are, then the meme that the HP books are "DRM FREE!" needs to be quashed now.
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