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Old 01-25-2014, 03:40 PM   #72
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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx View Post
@Akshayy I'm still a bit confused - are you saying that if we buy a book from say Kobo the it is up to Kobo to advise whether rthis is a ADE2 or 3 encrypted book?

It seems a bit of a lucky dip and I don't want to buy a ADE3 book for some time yet
No. What he says is:

Buy any book -> Open ASCM in ADE 2.x -> Old DRM -> Works with old & new devices and ADE 3.x.
Buy any book -> Open ASCM in ADE 3.x -> New DRM -> Works with new devices only.

So I forsee that many people who don't know much about DRM and stuff might update to ADE 3.0 ("Hey, there's a new version, why not?"), buy a bunch of books, download them, and then find out they won't work with their old reader anymore.

I do not know if it's possible to remove ADE 3.x, replace it with ADE 2.x and then redownload the book by using the ASCM-file with ADE 2.x. If it's not, then the customer will have unknowingly scrambled a book into an unusable state, at least until he gets a new reader.

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