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Originally Posted by tompe
Maybe the plan is to cause much confusion and force people to stop using DRM? I also cannot understand how they could write the standard this way.
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Originally Posted by Barcey
Well both Adobe and Overdrive were on the board of directors of the IDPF at the time. I believe that Bill McCoy from Adobe was the President. I'm just speculating that might have had something to do with it.
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Pretty much. Big players wanted DRM as part of the standard. An open format that depends on a DRM scheme owned by a single entity is not an open format. I'm going to assume the authors were unable to get consensus on a single DRM system but were able to agree that a DRM scheme was necessary. So only framework for attaching DRM to the format was authored and the actual implementation was left up to the party wanting to add DRM.