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Old 12-29-2009, 08:18 AM   #70
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Originally Posted by calvin-c View Post
I've never been that interested in music so don't know what was done with DRM on it-but it sounds, from this, Real was stripping the DRM, converting the format, and then re-applying the DRM, which implies that the distributor had control of the DRM. That's not, as I understand it, the case with ebooks.
They didn't have "control" of the DRM either per-se. That's why they couldn't do Windows Media files, and there was a cat and mouse game with, for example, Apple on being able to change their DRM.

It was a server-side product, though, so the user never had a DRM-free product and it survived several legal challenges.
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