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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
EDIT: There's actually something pretty interesting in the comment section over at goodereader:
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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Wow that Adobe chap sounds like he may know what's going on .... can one of the Mods or Alexander ask him or another rep to come onto MR for a chat and (very polite) Q and A session?
What do you think Mods?