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Originally Posted by xg4bx
''They also hope to unveil a new “always online” form of DRM within the next two years. This will function the same way most games work, that require you to always maintain an internet connection to verify the authenticity of the book.''
http://goodereader.com/blog/electron...lled-e-readers |
Well, that's Tweedle Dum's take on the slideshow posted earlier in this thread. Not a shred of new information in it. (And no source on the claim about the always-online DRM. That possibility has been mentioned here before as well, and while it seems highly likely that Adobe would be planning this ultimate f***-up, I don't think it has been verified yet. Or has it?)
EDIT: There's actually something pretty interesting in the comment section over at goodereader:
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Shameer Ayyappan
Hi Michael, I’m the Sr. Product Manager for the ebooks business at Adobe. I wanted to clarify Adobe’s stand on some of this:
Background: One of the biggest concerns publishers and resellers had with ACS4 was about the easily available DRM hacks on the web. We addressed this with the latest version of ACS (v5) and RMSDK (v10).
We will leave it to the discretion of our resellers and publishers to set the DRM flag in ACS 5 (thus enforcing the need for RMSDK 10 based readers to download books via ACS 5).
Bottomline- Resellers and publishers will benefit from the hardened DRM if they use ACS5 and their customers are on RMSDK 10 based readers. If their customers are on RMSDK 9 based readers, they will continue to be able to deliver books- but without the hardened DRM. i.e, people with older readers can continue to purchase or read new books.
And Adobe has NOT discussed any plans for an ‘always online’ form of DRM.
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