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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
This is how it operates. You buy cheap 10 meg or bigger SD interfaced blanks in the 2-5$ range or lower,(about the price of DVD blanks) and set them in this special chip controlled writer/reader. On the net you download your book (or multiple books)directly to the writer, and a lock is programmed on the card that prevents the content to be copied. These cards could only be read on a reader equipped with the right chip (after market retrofit possibilities). If the card is destroyed, burned stolen or lost, tough luck! Just like a paper book. But it would never depend on the device it was written too, like now, just on this specific SD card.
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But here's the problem:
What's the difference between reading the books on the card and copying the books on the card?
From a programmer's point of view: nothing.
If the reader can read the books on the card, then a "reader" can be created that will copy the books off the card - effectively removing the DRM.
So the next logical step is to control the reader - which means that it must be proprietary and closed.
That why there is no middle ground with DRM: If it's open, it can't perform its stated function: protecting the content from copying. If it's closed, it robs us of our rights.