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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Why is everybody thinking that this will not happen?
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Because it won't. With video games and videos (and even protected music cds) there's no alternatives, many times. You can't fire up the ol' gerbil-powered gaming system and experience the latest games. So the bar before it gets
too cumbersome for consumers to put up anymore with is quite high in those cases.
They have to toe the line with books
precisely because paper books are still around. I hear even the very latest ones still have physical copies printed. And if ebooks become
too cumbersome for people to easily consume, they'll go back to buying those paper books.
But make no mistake; it's a lack of
convenience that would eventually drive most ebook readers back to paper. Not "unbreakable" DRM.