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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Again, are you claiming that Apple have reverse engineered ADE? Apple is absolute death on people reverse engineering anything they do, and unless they have their reader cannot be ADE-compatible, and hence won't read any ADE-encrypted ePub's.
Really quite simple ><
We do know, right now. This is not something we need to speculate on...
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I can tell, you are the only person who has even mentioned the idea of Apple having reverse-engineered ADE. I certainly have not made that claim, nor has anyone else in this thread (IMHO; I'm sure they'll correct me if I'm wrong).
We all suspect (quite strongly!) that Apple will be using some other sort of DRM (probably FairPlay based). And, given past experience, that they won't be licensing that DRM to other companies (sigh!).
If they've held true to past form, they probably took a crack at arguing against DRM in the first place (for all the obvious good business reasons, not because they're "the good guys" in the DRM argument). But they probably lost that argument, and weren't prepared to push it hard enough to torpedo the deal. All of this would be entirely consistent with their history with the Music labels.
Please note: I make no claim that Apple is "championing the little guy" or "supporting us in the fight against DRM" or any such thing. They're engaged in good business in their own best interests. That's all. They're smart enough to see that DRM is
not in the best-long term interests of Apple (for certain-sure) or of the publishers (highly likely). So they're likely to have taken a crack at the argument. But certainly not likely to have let it end the deal. And if publisher-required DRM gives them a short-term competitive advantage, they'll probably cry all the way to the bank... while continuing to figure out how to make it go away in the
long term (for those same obvious good business reasons). And while carefully (and even truthfully!) blaming it all on the publishers.
Xenophon
(whose cynicism is probably showing about now)