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Originally Posted by ATDrake
And there's a spectrum of restriction and identification between ADE/Amazon's DRM and watermarking, with B&N/eReader DRM lying somewhere between, with its use of your name and credit card # as a password to unlock the - single file you can download direct from their website
- without having to pass it through some other software which may not work on your chosen OS and
- can put on as many of your supporting devices after
- without having to authorize through a central server which may one day go offline
- nor download a separately encoded file for each device and have to re-download them all if something messes up your app authorization and you have to re-install (or just go straight to keeping the stripped files around for the inevitable eventuality of trying to transfer your ~2000+ DRMed freebie ebooks back to your K4Mac library).
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I would be okay with that. Aside from the lack of software/client, that sounds a lot like the way Steam works.
Steam requires a client installed and running, but once you are logged in to your account, you can do whatever you want with your games, and put them on as many PCs as you like. Once purchased, the game sits in your account library forever, and can be re-downloaded as many times as necessary. You can only be online with one client instance at a time, but you can run in off-line mode on your other PCs if you want to play a game on two or more systems at the same time.
It's a great system, and the fact that it's so popular, despite being nothing but creatively implemented DRM, shows that it's more than possible to do DRM in a way that doesn't inconvenience the paying customer.