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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Even then. We don't own the book, so why should anyone, for the sake of fair use, create a circumvention method?
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Any system which repeatedly phones home when you open and read a book (and this seems implied by Adobe's vague "morphing key re-creation" language) deprives the reader of more than just fair use.
The current "protocol" commonly in use (break-once-read-many) lets the library (and its corporate overlords) know that I borrowed a book and returned it. Anything more than that is intrusive, and in fact libraries don't even want to keep that much information handy. (but 9/11!)
If more draconian DRM is ONLY on library books going forward because tech support for DRM-created problems in the free marketplace is too onerous for retailers, then you're going to have a drastic digital divide between those who are surveilled and those who can pay $14.95 a pop not to be.