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Originally Posted by murg
If you use a software product, and that product has some bug embedded in an external library, it is the producer of the product you bought's fault.
Kobo already has their own renderer (kepub). While it makes sense to continue to use Adobe's server side, decrypting Adobe DRM is relatively trivial, as witnessed by Apprentice Alf, et al.
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Minor correction: Kobo does not have their own renderer. ACCESS supplies the epub3 compliant (more or less) renderer though Kobo supplies the DRM.
As for the trivial nature of decrypting ADEPT, it's not the triviality, it's the horde of lawyers who would descend on Kobo. Kobo might win in court if they were able to prove that they had clean room reverse engineered the decryption software but my opinion is that Kobo is likely to run out of money long before any decision was reached in such a case. If ADEPT is covered by any patents and Adobe chose to fight the case based on patent rights, even clean room reverse engineering would not be a defense given that several cases have made it clear that clean room reverse engineering can not be used to circumvent patent restrictions.