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Originally Posted by DaleDe
I wasn't totally disagreeing with the conclusion, just the argument that said all eBook DRM has been cracked anyway.
Dale
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Depends on your definition of "cracked". Most of the time the DRM is merely circumvented. IE, there are many DRM schemes out there where if you have the original key you can strip the DRM off. For example, one person buys the ebook, uses their key to strip off the DRM, and then distributes non-DRM copies. There's really no way they can prevent that. It's unnecessary to "crack" the encryption method in order to defeat DRM, so most people don't bother trying.
The basic premise is that person A "protects" something so that person B (the legitimate user) can access it, but that person C (the "pirate") can not. However, if B and C are the same person, then the DRM fails completely. It just becomes a cat and mouse game of different ways to access the content. There is no way that DRM can stop it.