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Old 01-27-2009, 04:47 PM   #25
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
Actually the biggest format for eBooks (although we don't like it) is PDF and it is not broken and has never been broken. This is part of the reason it is the most popular format. The same technique is being applied to ePUB. Libraries want DRM. As an aside LRX has not been broken. Only the PDA formats have been broken.

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True... but it's significant that even PDF can be circumvented, simply by printing out and re-copying with OCR. Essentially, no DRM system is perfect: If you can read it, it can be beaten.

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Steve - I have all your books, the free as well as the purchased and I have not given any of them to anyone else, nor will I. I thoroughly enjoy your broad band mind. Keep it up.
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