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Originally Posted by darryl
What I am talking about is an effective drm system. Not whether authors or publishers choose to apply or not apply drm. The point is that we cannot have a drm system that is effective for borrowed books only that would not be equally effective for all books.
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For all practical purposes, for a DRM system to be effective, it requires the right people to not wish to crack it. For years, the TIVO encryption was left in place because even though some people knew how to crack it, they did not publicize the crack because they accepted the idea that Tivo allowed access to their platform as long as they were not being sued because pirates were using their platform to pirate video content. Tivo had a very rich hacker community for years.
Sony's LRX was never crack (at least publicly) because for the most part, very few people cared about it.