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Originally Posted by pazos
Probably they removed ADE support to avoid expenses. Sadly (for them) this is an online service that cannot be hacked. If they could steal it they would, as they're doing with their entire software stack  |
I was reading somewhere (maybe an old thread on here, or on an ereader site) that the Adobe encryption algorithm changed with ADE v3.0 upwards. So it means it's more tricky for ereader and tablet manufacturers to integrate Adobe DRM into their reader apps. Apple's iBooks doesn't support it for example.
Maybe Adobe were charging way too much to license the technology, or maybe manufacturers didn't fancy being locked into that DRM. Anyway, rather annoying as my Max 1 handles it perfectly (presumably the older encryption).