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Originally Posted by tomsem
As for adopting the new DRM scheme, who is going to blink first? Are publishers in a position to insist that vendors use it? If not, why would any vendor adopt it, when all it can do is diminish the number of devices that can consume the content and cause customer support issues?
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When they got rid of
Content Server 3 DRM and moved to CS4 they didn't give anyone a choice. They stopped supporting CS3 and you had to "upgrade" to CS4. For consumers you had a 9 month period where you could convert the books you had to the new DRM or you were out of luck (unless you still have an activated copy of Acrobat 6 or 7 that the books were encrypted to). Whether they could still pull that, or would even try, in a much expanded market (with way more books in consumer hands) or not it's hard to say. I wouldn't think so, but Adobe can be pretty arrogant.