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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
As soon as there are some auth. servers or tokens involved your "as many times as you wish" changes to "as long as we don't pull the plug" and since companies have no real interest in their customers than their money this happens frequently enough. Thanks. As it's been said: we've seen it with games.
In cases of unfair use the rightholders are free to go the way everyone else mistreated is free to do.
That's what courts are for. I see no reason for being chained by them "just in case"
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Does anyone remember "PlaysForSure" from Microsoft? This was their digital music DRM scheme, and a lot of people who purchased music DRM-encoded with it got seriously burned when Microsoft turned off the "PlaysForSure" servers several years ago. Suddenly, a lot of purchased music was suddenly unplayable, and this was caused by a large corporation with huge revenues, and is still around. If Microsoft can do it, so can Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Chapters, etc. What if Borders had their own DRM scheme? Would all the Borders customers now be out of luck, since they are now no longer in business?