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Originally Posted by LazyScot
True, no DRM system can't be removed. But a DRM system could be designed such that it requires so much effort to remove as to not be worth it. And if all it got you access to was one e-book, rather than all e-books protected by that system, then the system is pretty effective.
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DRM has to be trivial to circumvent, otherwise it would be impossible for the legal owner to use the content. The only way to make it so that breaking DRM only got you access to one eBook would be to invent a completely different DRM scheme for every book. That's not going to happen. Even if it did, you could still break each scheme.
If a Publisher is banking on being able to come up with a "better mousetrap", they are destined to fail. There are millions of incredibly smart "mice" out there. The more the Publishers try to lock down the content, the more incentive they are giving people to break it. It's an impossible game to win.