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Originally Posted by jocampo
Companies don't want to make their own standards. We basically have two main ebook formats: ePub and Mobi. Most. important and biggest online book retailers stick to those, they are just putting a DRM protection on top of that, that's where I disagree.
An ideal DRM schema would be that one that can identify you as buyer or owner of a digital book without blocking you from being able to convert or read it on different readers.
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I meant that companies want their own standard for DRM. Sorry for mixing up the format/DRM stuff. In my defense, they mean the same thing to me.
I agree that that would be the ideal DRM. I stated that in my very first post. However, how could you achieve this sort of DRM?
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Take for example music. We are able to play our mp3s on any player, does not matter if the player is a Sony or an iPod. We can play them regardless of the brand, don't we?
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Yes, most modern players can now handle MP3 format. However, the format that Apple iTunes gives music in is AAC (ext m4a). I'm not sure if you've noticed, but this music format cannot be played on the Kindle (unless you hack it with MPlayer, but that's besides the point).
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There are no statistics or real numbers showing DRM as effective tool against copyright issues.
Having DRM is not better than not having one, is worse. It is not avoiding piracy but making difficult to read ebooks without hardware or reader restrictions. It is affecting users, you ... me ...
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As you say, there are no real statistics. All that we have are conclusions we can draw from our own intuition. You may think that having DRM is not better than not having one. That's from a consumers standpoint. From the standpoint of most companies, it is better to have DRM than not to have it at all.