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Katsunami · 01-23-2014, 02:14 PM

LOL.

"Please redownload all your purchased EPUBs to continue to read them. And... Oh.... Yeah.... Upgrade your reader also, while you're at it."

Eh... No.

I have epubs that I don't even remember where I got them (I don't keep pdurrant-like records), and I have some that come from stores now gone.

Adobe will *never* get rid of the current version of their DRM with regard to books already sold. They have to support it indefinitely, or render all books sold between 2007-2013 unreadable.

The only thing that could happen, in 5 years time or so, is requiring publishers and stores to use the new DRM on new releases, if all newer readers support it and most of the current ones are phased out.

01-23-2014, 02:14 PM	#31
Katsunami Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,111 Karma: 34000001 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: KPW1, KA1	LOL. "Please redownload all your purchased EPUBs to continue to read them. And... Oh.... Yeah.... Upgrade your reader also, while you're at it." Eh... No. I have epubs that I don't even remember where I got them (I don't keep pdurrant-like records), and I have some that come from stores now gone. Adobe will never get rid of the current version of their DRM with regard to books already sold. They have to support it indefinitely, or render all books sold between 2007-2013 unreadable. The only thing that could happen, in 5 years time or so, is requiring publishers and stores to use the new DRM on new releases, if all newer readers support it and most of the current ones are phased out. Last edited by Katsunami; 01-23-2014 at 02:18 PM.