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Originally Posted by pdam
I wouldn't see the device or reader being a major issue - more the docuemnt format - this would probably support a limited number of open standards, it's DRM schema should also be open - thus standardising DRM on an open system (if you have to have it, best it is open and common) and also driving format standards - the question would be more about your device supporting the content standard rather than the UL (I'd envisage the openDRM element built into the content wrapper - you put the complexity hear, simply have a minor communication protocol at the device level).
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DRM
cannot be open. It's either DRM and closed/proprietary, or open and no DRM. There is no middle ground. This isn't a political statement - it's a logical one.
OpenDRM means that the lock used to lock up the content and the key to unlock the content are known to everyone. Since the reader must unlock the content for you to view, someone can create a reader that simply writes the unlocked content to your hard drive. Therefore, there is no OpenDRM.
The only way that DRM can meet its objective of preventing unauthorized copying is to be closed and proprietary.
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Originally Posted by pdam
Dropping books - again, in an ideal world, the repository would be abstracted from the DRM serving mechanism - this would be a publicly owned store - so nothing ever gets dropped or deleted and there would be no chance of it going under (without servre political turmoil).
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Right. There are a nice big list of "banned books" over the years that public pressure forced out of libraries and local bookstores.
Based on the political pressures of today, I'd say it's a good chance that many "free" countries will start banning (from a legal level) books that they deem "indecent" (like books that criticize certain political stands).