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Originally Posted by webroot
OCR scanning is a real challenge, still breaking encryption based drm require very good skill and somebody who want spend time on that. For an ordinary user Joe needs to wait until hacker has released a crack, and a hacker wont do for less known drm schemes. So the answer to drm is stay away from standard or well known drm schemes such as adobe.
Btw breaking drm is not as easy that many think, one has to derive at device key by an expert guess.
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OCR is inconvenient, but only has to be done once, and then can be distributed indefinitely. Security through obscurity won't prevent DRM from being cracked. Using a lesser-known DRM scheme is no solution. The expense would be prohibitive - when you can spread the cost of the DRM over a great many copies, it doesn't raise the cost much, but if the cost is only spread over a small number of copies, it raises the price significantly. No one's going to buy it. And upon what device will it run? Your obscure, expensive DRM is no good at all unless people have devices that can decrypt that DRM. People aren't going to buy an obscure reader that runs obscure DRM, as it will cost them a lot of money. They will just buy something else.