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Originally Posted by Katsunami
The difference is that, if DRM-support is dropped, that this is done WILLINGLY by a third party. As hardcastle said, you don't have any power to stop them. Suppose Adobe wants to force everybody to the new DRM-scheme. They actually manage to force sellers to upgrade their servers, obsoleting your current reader. They also manage to force manufacturers to stop supporting the old DRM in their new readers.
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Happened very recently in the UK with television, TV transmission was switched from analogue to digital so old TV's no longer worked (or you needed a set top box).
Interestingly the overwhelming response of the TV watching public was "Meh". Admittedly digital TV's had been out for a while so it wasn't brand new kit being obsoleted, but the parallels are there.