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Originally Posted by Katsunami
One of the easiest ways to create unbreakable DRM is to stream a book page by page. Yes, you can capture the pages and re-assemble the book, but I doubt many people will do that. It's too time consuming.
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Not necessarily.
http://www.playlater.tv/
There is an entire category of software, called screenscrapers, dedicated to *automatically* extracting data from computer displays. At its most basic, you aim it at an open window and it automatically does a screen capture, pages down, and repeats. The result is a folder-full of image files that can be read as a slideshow or OCR'ed.
Over the years I've seen commercial software for capturing audio, video, and text files. Basically, if you can put it on a PC screen, it can be captured with software. Worst case, if you keep it off PCs, somebody will sell a hardware capture device to spoof the DRM with a "man in the middle" capture.
In all likelihood, the only truly unbreakable DRM is making the product/service unusably cumbersome, so nobody wants it. If nobody wants it, nobody will crack it.
