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Originally Posted by 13xforever
I think everyone does this. The problem is, you can't buy all of the future books right now, and once Kobo will start changing their scheme every other day, it will be very hard for consumers to make unencrypted backups. Sure, I can try to be bothered once in a while, but I can only do so much (I have no skills to reverse-engineer any meaningful scheme), and it's fun to do it once or twice. Then you'll have to wait for anyone to be bothered and skilled enough to reproduce it (and then it will be obsolete in a few weeks/months again).
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Some might say I've had a good try at buying all the future books
(TBR currently 780+)
But you're right - DRM removal is a short term strategy in that sense. The vendors could keep switching DRM schemes until the clever people who are willing to do the reverse engineering give up in disgust.
In which case, I'd switch back to my pre-2008 regime, of only buying ebooks sold without DRM.
I rather hope that the publishers come to their senses before that happens and abandon (encryption based) DRM as a costly and customer-unfriendly failure.
Perhaps if the publishers get scared enough of Amazon (as the music publishers did with Apple), they'll let some other retailer have DRM free ebooks. Which would quickly lead to the complete demise of DRM.