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Originally Posted by KevinH
I think people believe there will always be someone out there with the skills and interests to reverse engineer each new drm release. That may be true for more popular media formats like movies and cds, but it is not generally true for ebooks.
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I agree that eBooks are not a popular format to decrypt, but I'm also not expecting any new eBook DRMs soon either. If there comes a time when I can't decrypt eBooks anymore, I'll stop buying them.
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IMHO, creation of "tools" should be protected activities (as long as you do not charge for them and do not promote piracy) so that users can continue to have fair use (fair dealing) access to them.
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If the tools were legally protected, there would be no purpose for DRM in the first place. It would be simpler to require consumers' rights than to support both the implementation of DRM and its removal.