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Old 05-21-2012, 10:54 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by jbcohen View Post
Zetmolom is saying the same thing that the computer security community has been saying for years. No matter what the security officals do to keep information safe there will always be a hacker to find a way around it. Security folks have been saying this for years and suddently publishers are listening, what took them so long.
The security professions don't know what they're talking about.

DRM works.

DRM will prevent people from copying your books.

We can implement a better DRM solution than all those others made by idiots that were cracked in no time for $$$$.

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That's how I think the conversation between someone and a manager at the publishers will have gone anyway

What should have been asked is:

So, we're going to encrypt our books with a super secure lock.

Yes.

then we're going to give the super secure lock to the customer

Yes.

Then we're going to give them the key to the super secure lock.

Yes, oh.
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