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Originally Posted by Jane12
Am I understanding this correctly?
* According to post #237, B&N uses ACS 4 and alternative Adobe passhash DRM.
* Per post #360, ACS 5 will no longer support passhash DRM???
* Per various sources, Adobe will be enforcing ACS 5 for all booksellers/distributors starting in July?!?
Does this mean B&N will be forced to either abandon ACS and find a new way to serve up books, or abandon their current passhash DRM and adopt the new Adobe DRM? |
Not likely. The way I remember the history on this was that B&N objected to paying the Adobe DRM tax because it would put them at a competitive disadvantage with Amazon. They already owned their own DRM (passhash) so they decided to use it instead. Adobe got their panties in a bunch because they were losing the ePub DRM monopoly, so they struck a deal with B&N that would include passhash DRM in ACS4 as an alternate DRM option. B&N wouldn't have to pay the Adobe DRM tax and Adobe could pretend everyone was one big happy Adobe DRM family. I'm not aware of anyone else using passhash DRM other then B&N so Adobe probably decided to drop it.
The point is that B&N was originally going to use passhash DRM without Adobe so they should be able to do so now.