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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Whatever. You wanna panic ... panic. I won't get in your way. The fact remains that there was misinformation being spread in this thread. People need to slow down.
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The core information is that at any point in the future, vendors like Kobobooks could suddenly switch to the new encryption format, which may or may not make it impossible to disinfect new purchases (or old ones that are not yet downloaded). For me, this (and the consequences it implies) is a "biggie". When that happens, and it sounds more like a "when" than an "if", I'll have to rethink how and where I buy ebooks.
For me, it's not about panicking, but about getting really, really tired of this industry's focus on battling with the very people who hand them money. It's not just DRM, but also stuff like online activation and further developments of the same kind. The music industry managed to "get" this eventually. Publishers, book sellers and Adobe/Apple/etc however seem to move in the opposite direction.
As a customer, I'm increasingly tiring of swimming upstream.