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(Consider the number of posts here about people having problems with Adobe DRM - authorising/deauthorising devices, finding out that they've lost access through not setting it up properly to start with, etc.)
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I think one of the problems is that this site is kind of a bubble, to which anyone who has ever had a DRM problem flees, in the knowledge that they will find a welcome and understanding ear. In the meantime, the VAST majority of those who buy Adobe DRMed books go through life blissfully ignorant that there is even IS a such thing as Adobe DRM, let alone that it is a flawed scheme ( a fate it shares with every thing made by humans).
Maybe the solution is not no DRM , but BETTER DRM. After all, we don't give up on speeding laws, because there is frequently arbitrary and uneven enforcement of those laws or because it represents a restriction after we have spent our hard earned money to buy cars that can go much faster than the speed limit. Why how dare the government insist that we can only go 55 or 30 or 15 mph in certain areas and that those limits arbitrarily change over time! Why, the nerve....