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Originally Posted by rcentros
Didn't Microsoft basically hamstring their new XBox by announcing such a scheme for game playing? They soon backed down on that plan. I'm guessing much the same will happen when/if eBook publishers try to use such a scheme on eReaders. The whole point of an eReader is portability of your library. There are still wide open spaces where there is no Internet connection. Can you imagine how happy an eBook customer would be if he couldn't read any of the thousand books on his eReader during a camping trip?
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There are a lot of Readers out there that do not have WiFi and won't work with an online always type DRM. Plus, the chances of the firmware being updated for those devices is probably non-existent. I've been on vacation (cruise) where I did not have net access for days and it's the sort of place where a lot of reading is done. Plus, when I go out of the house, I don't always have WiFi access. So this sort of DRM would be a total bust. Also, having to have net access on all the time to read would really cut down on battery life. That would not do at all. All such DRM would do is take away our right to read when and where we want and in some cases, take away our ability to read.