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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Imaginary? I speak geek, and no, this doesn't make any sense.
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Thank you. I was trying to wrap my head around "can't be copied," so I translated that to "won't work in a different location because it attaches to registry or something," and then got to "can be moved," which reads to me like "our customer service reps will be up to their eyeballs fixing download glitches that killed the only functional copy of the playkey," and then I read "no internet tether," which, umm, I'm just going to ignore and back away slowly.
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I suspect that most people would just strip the DRM and share the unencrypted copies, like what most people already do on filesharing sites.
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Well, yes. And in addition to that, there'll be legitimate share sites that count on trust to keep the playkeys working. Which large groups of hackers often manage to arrange... but can't be done by libraries.
Way to go; more DRM that utterly fails to allow the most well-known free use of pbooks.
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I'm sure it sounds like a brilliant idea to some industry executive, so these guys will probably get funding from somewhere. It's essentially just fancy sounding snake oil though.
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Of course they'll get funding. New code! New DRM that will fix our problems! We'll issue the content in two parts--the file with the content, which anyone can copy, and the key, which will be just like your house key: if you've misplaced it or someone else has it, all copies of content are worthless!
I'm sure people will be lining up to buy that version!