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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
ePub's been cracked for quite a while. Sony LRX hasn't.
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Even still. It's the same concept as CDs. It takes about 5-10 minutes to rip a CD at a decent bit rate, and you don't have to worry about how many devices you place said music on. iTunes frustrates me with this, as I have more computers in my household than Apple allows authorization for, which means I am limited by Apple from streaming my legal purchased music on to my own personal computers. DRM is stripped from the music now but I still have quite a bit with DRM on it, and it would cost me $370 to purchase more "rights" to the music I already own. Yes I know this could have been avoided, and in reality isn't that big of deal, but it would be nice if we didn't have to worry about this with digital purchases.
There is NO effective method of preventing piracy, and I see this as Google attempting to control the flow of their ebooks on the internet. It is more of a pain in the butt to the consumer than effective copy protection. Why lose out on potential sales by using cumbersome means of trying to protect your content, which from the sound of Google's plan thus far seems to be the goal of the cloud.