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Originally Posted by stustaff
Couple of clarifying points in Red, however as you say at the bottom we know the DRM is there and what it does, I do feel though that some people who are anti DRM(And I'd prefer not to have it) exagerate an awful lot or maybe are not aware of how some particular DRM schemes work now.
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Perhaps then I need to reclarify, or restate, the point about sanctioned devices. If you're reading DRM books on a cooler then you're not reading sony DRM books, you must be using ADE ePubs or similar, in which case you are still limited to devices that are licensing adobe's content management technology. I saw the LRX in the quote in your post and mistakenly assumed you were using LRX files as well. In the context of ePub and ADEPT DRM (ironic name considering how long it's been cracked) I would point out that I, as an iPhone user, cannot take advantage of ADEPT DRM documents because the one and only ebook reader software available there that supports both me dropping in my own files and the ADEPT scheme, is a horrible piece of garbage (talking about txtr here.) And that's pretty significant considering the mass appeal and software support of the iPhone platform. And it's even more ironic since the most popular eBook reading software that does allow your own files is Stanza which exclusively supports ePub and eReader formats, but no DRM on the ePubs.
It doesn't matter which DRM scheme you're involving, it's still limiting you one way or another. Though a more broadly accepted DRM scheme is certainly preferable, I doubt there is any promise from Adobe to keep their servers up so you can authorize devices in the future. In fact I bet along the lines somewhere we agreed to explicitly not expect such guarantees. So it's still a central point of failure. I hope that the newer password based DRM catches on, because at least in that case, I don't depend on any third party to use my DRM'd books with supported devices down the road.
I do agree that a lot of people don't understand the real limitations of the systems, but it is an unfortunate side effect in and of itself of such arbitrary limiting systems. They confuse consumers, and that would probably be my biggest gripe against DRM personally. Some DRM schemes are widely used without more than maybe 0.5% of consumers even knowing, let alone caring. I would cite CSS in DVD as a perfect example of this. Because of the nature of physical media, nobody notices the DRM there. I notice it, because I hate physical media swapping and so I rip all my DVDs to watch on my Apple TV
