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Originally Posted by Vienna01
Do I dislike DRM for ebooks as now implemented? Yes. I believe there needs to be a true DRM standard (an open standard that was adopted by most publishers AND reader providers) that permitted us to read the book on ANY reader product. If that were true I woud ACCEPT the need for DRM and LIVE WITH IT.
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It's already been proven that this cannot exist.
DRM must be closed and proprietary in order to work.
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Originally Posted by Vienna01
I would support a DRM standard that permitted end users to loan their ebook to a friend without loaning their reader to the friend (maybe giving up the ability to read the ebook themself while it was ON LOAN). The standard would need to support the public lending library approach where the ebook would be lent for a limited period administered by the library. The DRM standard would allow non-commercial developers to create software readers that ran on general purpose devices PCs, PDAs, Web-based environments...
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But that's not the purpose of DRM. DRM cannot protect content. We've already proven that.
The purpose of DRM is to lock users into a company - and lock out competition. The whole DRM issue has
nothing do to with "IP" (an oxymoron, IHMO) and piracy.