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Originally Posted by murraypaul
I think you've doomed your books to uselessness as soon as the company decides to stop hosting the licence server.
The local tokens would have to be regularly verified online with a server, otherwise the whole scheme would be pointless, you could just back up the token, transfer the licence somewhere else, then copy the token back.
And once the server goes, so do your books.
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Details! I would expect a third party to manage the servers (a la pki) and there is no need to revisit a token generated based on unique characteristics of a device. Again, using something similar to the PKI certificate to associate the reader with owned content.