Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Seems to be quite a bit of FUD being spread around here.
In my experience, there is absolutely no change in the DRM scheme provided with ADE 3.0 UNLESS the seller has updated to CS5. Regardless of whether it's a new purchase or a re-download of an older purchase. And currently, the version of ADE that you use when you FIRST download the ebook has no relevance whatsoever (yet) that I can discern.
I just went to Kobo and bought a brand-spanking new, Adobe DRMed ePub, downloaded the ascm file, opened/fulfilled it (for the very first time) with Adobe 3.0 (registered to my usual AdobeID). I verified that I could indeed read the ePub using ADE 3.0.
I then copied that ePub file (DRM still intact, mind you), to a machine that only had ADE 2.0 installed (and registered to the same AdobeID), and verified that I could read the DRMed ePub. Yes... I could. It worked. I expected it to.
Then I transferred that same DRMed ePub (first downloaded using ADE 3.0) to a mobile device that had an ePub reader based on Adobe's RMSDK 9.3.3 (registered once again to my standard AdobeID) to see if I could read it there. The answer was yes, yes I could. Not surprised.
I have no doubt that things might change once resellers/libraries/whathaveyou start using Content Server 5 for fulfillment. But until such time, I don't think there's reason for panic.
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