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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
Sorry, moz, I was just dense.
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That's fine, you get it now, thanks to everyone else for explaining while I was away. And thanks for the apology (unnecessary, but appreciated).
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Understand I'm talking about a theory only, and in this ideal theory, DRM would disappear, and all book publishers would agree, if not on a format, at least on an encryption infrastructure.
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Search for the "open DRM" discussions to see why this can't work. It fails on both levels - in practice, as soon as one person cracks it everybody loses all DRM rather than the current plethora of systems requiring individual cracks. On a theoretical level, the more information people have about the DRM system the easier it is to crack. What keeps FOSS working is that there is limited profit to be made from breaking it, and a lot of people who want it fixed. With DRM, a lot of those people would dislike the whole idea and some would actively interfere.
Why would someone like me contribute to developing an "open DRM" system that stops me reading the books I've bought? Wouldn't I be more likely to sign up and build a tool that lets me do whatever I want with the DRMbooks I buy? Then, of course, I'd release those tools so everyone else could do the same with their DRMbooks.