Hello:
I have suggestion for a DRM system that should make life easy and wondered what opions everyone else would have of it...
Peanutpress (now eReader i Think) had a DRM idea, whereby any bought book was encrypted with your credit card number - so to open the book you needed the credit card number. So - thoretically I could lend the book to my best mates, if I trusted them enough with my credit card number....
This idea was flawed however - all you have to do is change credit card, making the old number obsolete and therefore no problem to give to anyone / everyone.
My idea has come form this - which is to encrypt the book, but not tie it to any device in particular, any device with the software can read it, no password to open, it is easy to copy and even post on the internet if you want.
However the document could be encrypted with some kind of identifier which identifies who bought the original - thus pointing the finger, when a thousand copies are found all over the internet for 'free' download.
I could even lend them to my mates - as that would result in only 2 or 3 (
for example) copies of the original. Which can be easily identified as 'fair use'