Thread: Overdrive moves to MP3 for audiobooks - drops DRM
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Old 01-24-2014, 03:13 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master View Post
That strongly suggests there will still be DRM of some kind.
What it suggests is that things will be like they are now for MP3 audiobooks. The OverDrive apps know when the lending period has expired and will prompt you to delete the book (in the Windows program you can ignore the prompt, not sure about other OD apps). If the MP3's were copied to a device another way, such as iTunes, you will get no prompt and the books will continue working after the expiration period. I wouldn't be surprised it there was some kind of digital watermarking/social DRM that occurs to the files like it does with MP3's bought from Amazon and elsewhere.
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