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Originally Posted by ApK
Paul or DD might chime here, but I don't believe that is universally true. In some systems, if you cannot access the the server at that future date, you can't access your content to do the stripping. MS's LIT was a prime example of this happening in real life.
Remember that none of the current stripping solutions actually "break" the DRM in a cryptography cracking sense. They merely use the access you legitimately have in a novel way.
ApK
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I'm not sure that's accurate. As long as you can read the DRM'd material on your computer, it implies your computer has the required keys to unlock the material and it's those keys that most DRM removal programs make use of. With MS lit if you still have the lit reader installed and able to read the DRM'd books you can likely strip it. If you don't however, you might not be able to install it now (assuming the drm servers are gone, which I think they are with .lit?)
This applies to the kindle too although I don't want to go into any more details in case this discussion gets too close to this sites T&Cs.
Either way, if the OP doesn't want to strip DRM right now, they'd just need to check what they need to strip it in the future. The risk of course is that your computer crashes, you may still have the book access but if you don't have a computer authorised to read them and the DRM servers are shut at that point, then you really are out of luck.