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Originally Posted by PKFFW
And unless something beyond the DRM itself changes, the backup of the DRM file will be able to be restored later.
It is only if something else changes(the four points I listed in my previous post are some examples) that the data will then become "wasted space".
Hence, technically speaking, it is not the DRM itself that renders the data useless but a combination of circumstances.
Cheers,
PKFFW
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So let's say you bought an ereader (.pdb) ebook from eReader.com using an older credit card which you have subsequently cancelled - and you changed your CC number with eReader and Fictionwise. No problem yes? Now let's say that you've upgraded your computer system, losing the original ebook file, and eReader goes down due to poor business practices. Now you've lost your copy of eReader's software when you upgraded your computer. And there's now NO WAY to recover the 'backed up' ebook - short of running some sort of DRM removal software against it. That is *IF* you remembered to jot down your old CC number so you can use it with the software to strip the DRM.
Things like this happen all the time, yet you insist that we shouldn't consider the ability to recover from these problems as a 'backup' issue. Why?
Derek