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Old 01-27-2014, 03:32 PM   #242
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The Content Server already has an (unencypted) copy of all the books it handles,
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Man, those hackers were dumb then. Why steal people's email addresses when they could have stolen all those books!
It seems my guess was wrong. Content server stores encrypted copies of the books. (I guess encrypting the book each time would take too long.) It's the decryption key for the book that gets encrypted for each customer.

I should have realised this, actually. Amazon's DRM works in a similar way.
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