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I guess I'll try this one more time, so...
From everything we've been told and shown, this ISN'T Barnes & Noble introducing some new DRM scheme.
This is Barnes and Noble using Adobe encryption with a new authentication scheme that Adobe's incorporating in to the new Adobe Reader SDKs and the next version of Adobe Digital Editions.
It's all part of the greater consortium that's pushing to standardize on Adobe DRM for the ePub format.
It's a great thing for ebooks that have been divided by incompatible formats.
But apparently that's a bad thing as it's become obvious that what's upsetting you is that these standardized ePubs Adobe's pulling together are going to have DRM on them.
You know what? I really don't care if they do or don't.
As long as the files can be read by a nook or a Sony or a Plastic Logic device or whatever e-reader supports what appears to be heading toward an eventual standardization of the Adobe solution, Adobe can use uncrackable elliptical curve ciphers and one time pads for their DRM implementation for all I care.
DRM in the publishing industry is a fact of life for now and will be for the immediate future.
If it has to be around, better for it to be one solution (Adobe) as opposed to Amazon, sony, Borders, Barnes and Noble all coming up with different formats that aren't interoperable.
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