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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Is calibre really designed, on purpose or through serendipity, to inter-operate with DRM-breaking software in a friendly way?
If so, it could be relevant that Narendra Modi, who became India's prime minister today, is reputed to support stronger intellectual property protection. Maybe, in some indirect way, this could, one day, result in Kovid Goyal being asked to change that design a bit.
You could say that people would just switch to another eBook software package. But calibre is extremely popular, showing up on lists of the most downloaded Open Source software. It would take many years for someone else, presumably with a hidden identity, to develop an equally good alternative. Or maybe there never would be an equally good alternative.
Agreed. But this is no different than with any other rule-breaking behavior. A lot of humans will always scale fences. DRM doesn't have to be anywhere near unbreakable to still be effective most of the time. Being just a little better might make a big difference in compliance. (Or, maybe, compliance is already pretty high.)
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calibre is designed to facilitate the use of plugins in general. Most calibre plugins do not break DRM -- the one that does is not indexed in calibre.