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Originally Posted by HarryT
But that's not entirely true, is it? A DVD has DRM, but it doesn't matter because all the manufacturers of DVD players have agreed on a single DRM standard. If one manufacturer of DVD players dies, you can buy one from someone else. The problem is caused by "single vendor" flavours of DRM.
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If you put it like that, yes. A DVD has DRM (which has long been cracked), but because every DVD-player has to implement it to be able to play the DVD's, it's effectively not there, except when you try to copy a DVD using a standard CD/DVD burning application.
As long as you have a DVD-player and a TV/monitor to connect it to, you'll basically be able to watch the material.
EPUB e-readers mostly implement Adobe DRM, but to be able to switch from one to the other, you'll have to use ADE, and register stuff, and get the books into ADE itself, and so on; there DRM is much more intrusive. (FairPlay, a DRM-standard for music, was comparable. Does it even see any use today?)