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Originally Posted by edembowski
- Failing that, I can be sure that any device I buy does indeed support this DRM'd version. At the worst case, that means that I buy an older device.
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If the company making the DRM decides to stop supporting it, you can't apply it to new devices, not even "old" new devices. This is what happened to Amazon's previous ebooks, and WalMart's downloaded music... after a while, they decided to stop having the service, and people were stuck using their content on the devices they had registered at the time. No transferring them to the new laptop.
This is why decrypting DRM is important for anyone who wants to keep their content for more than a few years. When the DRM servers shut down, you lose access to your purchases.