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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I don't see ePub possibly haveing difference DRM schemes. I see it as being dobe's DRM scheme being the one chosen for ePub. So we'll have ePub without DRM and ePub with Adobe's DRM.
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The point is, Jon, that the standard says "you can have DRM", but it DOESN'T specify what the specific DRM method is. Any publisher or eBook store could, therefore, add their own DRM to ePub and still call it "ePub" (and it would, indeed, still be ePub, in that it would fully conform to the standard!)
You could, in theory, end up with half a dozen different DRM schemes, all calling themselves "ePub", and all mutually incompatible. That's the main thing I don't like about it; we could end up in a far worse mess with formats than we're in at the moment (which really isn't that bad a situation, practically speaking).