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Originally Posted by shalym
Hmmm...why couldn't a laptop do this as well? Any device that connects to the Internet could do this. If your argument is going to be that you don't have to connect your laptop to the internet, then I will counter that with the fact that you don't have to connect your e-reader to the Internet, either.
Shari
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Well a decent attempt would be to create an encripted book that can only be read by a licenced reader program that checks the books licence via phone home to get the encryption key. So you can, say, read your book on a laptop but only with a kindle reader utility.
However....
Nobody controls what programs, or indeed what drivers, a user chooses to install on a laptop. Once a legal copy of an Ebook is on a laptop it can be read. The ouput of the reader goes to a video driver and that driver is not protected. If no easier method is found then an altered video driver can pass the output to another program which can write a DRM free copy of the book. That DRM free copy can be released to the net. So in principle, all the DRM ensures is the payment of a single licence.