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Originally Posted by NatCh
when push comes to shove, a court will have to decide the finality of that question, and even being right can be very expensive in a courtroom when you're a big, sue-able corporation like Sony. 
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I'm assuming you mean for whoever would try and sue Sony? It would probably be safe to say that the lowest peon in their legal division can automatically file enough paperwork that would require 25,000 smackers in legalese just to respond to.
The larger the disparity between income levels of the plaintiffs the easier it is to manipulate the complex web of laws. People just don't generally have much luck suing corporations unless they find some way to bring the government into it.
Now if one of the other big boys were to put out a program that circumvented the original DRM so it could be read on a device THEY sold....hoooo, I'd pay to see that. Something like the Kindle reading Connect store books as well as the ones sold by Amazon. Or even better, if Apple were to "leak" a hook for the iPhone that bypassed Mobipocket and BBEB, coincidentally marking up another use for that odd-format PDA they're calling a phone.
(Now if only some bright people from the Sourceforge side of the net would develop a virtual monitor to capture ebook pages automatically and convert them to other formats, the whole DRM thing would be moot. Well, from the viewpoint of most of us. Kinda like DRM on CDs. For most of us it isn't really an issue.)