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Originally Posted by Grey Ram
I voted yes, because "DRM that cannot be removed" in never going to happen in ebooks. In other words, if we assume that one impossible thing has happened, then all kinds of other impossible things could happen too. 
I remember that the Harry Potter books were initially released with one of the strongest DRM I can think off i.e. not as ebooks at all. What happened was that an army of dedicated fans not only scanned the books, but in some cases typed them directly and in others translated them to other languages before the official translation was available.
To me DRM has always been about being inconveniencing enough as to avoid blatant copying, but if a book is attractive enough that you "have" to pay for it even if it has such undesirable (to you) conditions attached, then it is worth re-typing to remove such conditions  |
There is currently drm that is not cracked yet - there have been a few posters at Apprentice Alf's blog for books downloaded with a recent version of ADE that cannot be opened in ADE 2.x. If that happens to someone who uses a Sony eink reader they wouldn't be able to read a purchased book. If it becomes more common I would hope it would be cracked, but I'm not willing to risk it.