Thread: New Cybook and DRM, and other changes
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Old 04-30-2009, 07:42 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by AlexBell View Post
I have all my current ebooks on an SD card, and assumed that I would not be able to read the ebooks which were DRM'd because of course the new ebook has a different PID. I had deDRM'd some ebooks, but certainly not all. The mobipocket reader on my new Cybook can read all my ebooks, whether or not I had removed the DRM.

This seems to destroy the whole point of putting DRM on ebooks; so far as I can tell without actually trying it I could pay for and download a secure mobipocket ebook, put it on an SD card, and anyone else who had a similar Cybook to my new one could read it. Am I missing something here?

Regards, Alex
If you can read a DRM-protected book on the new machine, that means that the new machine has the same PID as the old. If you send away a machine for repair, that is (normally) literally what they do - repair it; you get the old machine back, hence the same PID.
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