Thread: license vs DRM
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Old 02-03-2010, 10:11 AM   #4
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And if the software breaks or the server is down or something, nobody can read? No thank you. This is the same issue I have with everything living on the 'cloud.' Some of us are not (nor do we wish to be) hooked up to, and reliant on, somebody else's equipment.

The only form of license and/or DR< I am okay with are:

1) Library books which expire (i.e. you know and understand it is a rental, and you are okay with it going kablooey on day 23 or whatever)
2) Watermarking or some other kind of 'social' drm which does not interfere with usability, file conversions, multiple devices or whatever. eReader is close to this, but you still have to manually enter in the number and you still can't run a file conversion on it unless you remove the DRM first.
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