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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Why will the books have to lack DRM? Because most people are clueless about removing DRM and they will not buy a book that they cannot put on their device
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DRM as we know it does not really work now does it? Since it is computer files, the DRM'ed books can be easily copied. That in itself would already violate copyright, does it not? If there is only supposed to be ONE copy of the book then lets make it not copyable. How? Simple, a physical device e.g. a smartcard with strong enough encryption as to make a brute force attack on it not feasable. Create some kind of cloud storage, and you put a book in it, you give a second physical smartcard "the lending one" to a friend, and he can plug that into his device, d/l the book, and read it as long as he has the card. While that book is in the borrow state, it is removed for you to use until you get your borrowed smartcard back. That would equally work well for music.