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Originally Posted by sony_fox
Just been reading the thread about BoB demise. Several comments along the lines of whent he retailer goes under the DRM will no longer activate the e-book.
I thought all the epub DRM went rhough Adobe's Digital Editions, and hence was independant of retailer. Providing Adobe stay's in business (ok not a given but quite likely for a while), then the ebooks will continue to work fine?
I'm sure there are other DRM solutions out there, but I've only ever come across ADE. Can someone confirm my understanding is correct?
Otherwise I've got a heck of a lot of stripping to do.
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Your understanding is correct. With Adobe Digital Editions, a book is encoded using a key linked to your Adobe ID. So long as Adobe will authorise new devices with your Adobe ID (i.e. give the device the key for your books) you will be able to read the books on new devices, even if the store that sold the book to you goes out of business.
And it'll work fine, until Adobe stops supporting Content Server 4, as they stopped supporting Content Server 3 back in 2009, giving people just a nine month window to migrate all their DRMed content from Content Server 3 to Content Server 4. Those who missed this window lost access to their files on new devices.
So: Don't ignore news from Adobe for any length of time, or you may find your files become unavailable on new devices.
Personally, I strip the DRM ASAP to avoid these potential problems.