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Originally Posted by HarryT
Why would it "go down in flames"? A company's IPR forms a part of its assets. If it goes "belly up" the liquidator will sell those assets - they don't just "vanish into thin air".
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Well, imagine for a moment that Amazon or Mobipocket go bust. Imagine they have this "perfect" DRM. Their activation servers are now gone. That is one problem.
Then they have a large digital warehouse with locked content. Who knows what will happen to that? Even with the best intentions, horrible mistakes are made (such as the BBC taping over the old Doctor Who episodes). And even if nothing goes intentionally or unintentionally wrong and the content with DRM system gets sold off to an interested bidder, the most likely result is nothing will change. The new party will (maybe) resume sales, or they might decide that it is currently not "economically viable" and shelve the stuff indefinitely.