[SmokeAndMirrors]

You know what's really sad?

A couple weeks ago, when I sent in my letter to the Library of Congress open submission about DRM, this is one thing I mentioned: that unless DRM is done away with for paid content all together, publishers will start pulling their books from libraries due to poor security. Ultimately, this threatens the viability of libraries as a business, and that is incredibly worrying - access to information to everyone is a cornerstone of a developed society.

I've never been less pleased to be right.

And the funny thing about it is, it's their fault libraries can't secure their content. They are so intent on making the content people pay for as limited as lending through invasive DRM that people who want to actually protect their purchased content are forced to strip it. Because of that, DRM-stripping tools are rampant, rendering DRM useless for its one legitimate purpose: lending.