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Originally Posted by 6charlong
I don't mean to argue the point, but it seems to me that the Publishing houses, big and small, have a vested interest in slowing or stopping piracy, and that they cannot achieve that without a standardized approach like that used for movies. Since they source content it seems possible for them to write their contracts with Kobo, Amazon, Google, etc. with the requirement that they all use the standard if they want to continue to sell content.
Without bringing this effort about it seems we still have an unenforceable security system that taxes everyone, benefits only the sellers of DRM and one (albeit very big) bookstore, while it inhibits the trade in books.
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That is one solution. They *chose* not to address the issue.
Others exist. None has been seriously pursued.
Consider that in politics sometimes the powers that be prefer an open contentious issue than an actual solution that might leave them without leverage with their partisans. It may be that the powers in publishing prefer to have the bogeyman of "widespread" piracy instead of an effective delivery mechanism that minimizes it.
Also, bear in mind that the unified standard delivery systems in video, music, console gaming, and comics have all been bypassed and pirate content is readily available to those willing to avail themselves of it, however they choose to rationalize it. I am not aware of any multivendor commercial content delivery mechanism that has not been bypassed and most of the hardward-based single vendor solutions have also been bypassed. (Note that I say bypassed, not broken. Actual content pirates have always had alternatives to brute-force cracking of protection systems.)
So far, the pirates always win.
Which does not, however, automatically imply anybody else actually loses.
(Again, a very long debatable issue, there.)