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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Given Readium's hostile take down, I can easily see them changing the DRM just enough for the existing code to fail.
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They may well do so, though personally I doubt they will bother. And if they do, someone will not be able to resist the challenge. New code will circulate privately and become more and more widespread.
Interestingly enough i didn't see the tone of the takedown as being particularly hostile. Unlike many such notices, it was very specific and in some ways almost conciliatory. It specifically excluded Apprentice Harper's repository, specifically acknowledging that readium was not not affected by it. It also went to some lengths to try to take the moral high ground with its arguments about library books. It also specifically referred to noDRM's future plans which it found threatening. Now, despite calling for hte removal of the repository, it seems to at least not be making waves now the readium code has been removed.
Having said this, it clearly does find the prospect of widely available trivially easy de-drm of LCP very threatening indeed to its business model at a time when it is trying to expand and compete aggressively with Adobe. As such I think we can expect aggressive action against any attempt to reinstate LCP to the tools or against any other entity who offers similar trivially easy functionality. I doubt readium will be all that bothered by the present situation nor do I think there is any action it can take which will materially improve its position.
I'm simply happy that this DRM infection is not more widespread.