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Originally Posted by derangedhermit
I can see a company wanting to "close the loophole" of previously purchased books using easily-defeated DRM
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If that was the goal, ADE 3.0 could have "upgraded" the encryption of the books you already have, at the time you installed it. The ADE software knows how to decrypt both DRM schemes, so it could decrypt the old and re-encrypt with the new method.
That's what I expected when they announced new DRM, but I also expected that it was customer friendly enough to do the same thing in the other direction (produce a copy with OLD DRM) when exporting a book to a device that does not support the new DRM yet.
If instead anyone who buys an ereader today and downloads ADE today (and ends up with ADE 3.0 because that's what's being offered now) and happens to buy a book at the wrong place (you can't tell beforehand which version you'll get), that's a great start into ereading when they can't actually read it on their device at all...