Thread: Overdrive moves to MP3 for audiobooks - drops DRM
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Old 01-24-2014, 09:24 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
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.
The Android app doesn't suggest it, but just says the lending period has expired and the files will be deleted per the lending agreement. The only option is OK and then the files are deleted. As mentioned though, the files can be copied elsewhere prior to that and will continue to work in other players.

I suspect more users using mobile phones is a big reason for this... iPhone doesn't support WMA, stock Android doesn't support of WMA although some manufacturers have a codec for DRM-free WMA. Windows Mobile supports WMA, but I've heard that it doesn't support DRM. I can't validate that, though.
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