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Originally Posted by HarryT
Why do you find it odd?
Libraries purchase licences.
Adobe provide a tool for licence management.
Nothing odd in libraries wanting to use a tool which aids them in their licence management.
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Except there is evidence (namely that libraries are willing to offer digital loans with OR without DRM) suggesting it is NOT libraries that want it.
It's likely, rather, that some publishers want it.
So the question is still whether the reasons that some publishers want it are valid or not.
There is evidence (namely the success of DRM-free publishers) that they are not valid.
So if DRM is not helping anyone much, and is hurting legitimate users (by increasing support and infrastructure needs, and inhibiting fair use) then it should be done away with, as it would be merely a cash cow for Adobe.
The evidence I've listed is not proof, and I'm open to being shown that DRM really does save publishers lots of money by significantly reducing infringement and protecting sales, in excess of the costs of implementing the DRM, but I have not seen any evidence of such.
ApK