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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
except I don't believe that Apple's Fairplay DRM has been broken, has it?
not that I'd buy books from Apple anyway.
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I don't think the book varient has, but music (before it was drm free) and films has.
As the poster above mentioned though, there's not really much demand, however it's just not possible to provide a way to decrypt content to view it without also exposing the decryption key, so if the format becomes popular enough or someone just gets a bee in their bonnet, it'll be cracked.
The slight exception to that is in the sense of hardware where they can hide the key in custom chips to avoid passing the key over the bus where it may be intercepted. However, that just relies on people having an easier time cracking software than hardware, stripping back silicon has been done by some (see bunnies xbox hack), it's just more involved/costly to do and also more costly for the device makers.
In response to the post about it been library ebooks only, not sure who it was aimed at, or if it was just a general note, but I was aware of it and stick by my original post.