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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The PID is part of the DRM. it's what's used to be the key that fits the lock. The PID is used as the key for encoding the DRM.
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This may just be a technicality but even though the PID is used as a part of the "individual" DRM for any particular machine, it is a stand-alone item, separate (in general) from the DRM. If it were a part of the DRM then your/my credit card number would be part of the DRM for ereader ebooks. My credit card number belongs to me and my financial institute. If someone "chooses" to use "my" CC # (or my PID) to DRM "my" ebooks, that does not automatically make it a part of "their" DRM. It still belongs to me and I have full rights to both know it and use it. They use it with
my "implicit" permission. (Although in some cases - i.e. the Amazon Kindles, the owner - sometimes - doesn't even know that they have done so.)