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Originally Posted by HarryT
The simple fact that companies which sell DRM-protected eBooks have been a commercial success.
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What companies are those?
And since you seem insistent on limiting our DRM discussion to eBooks, then your statement is incorrect because no eBook seller has been a commercial success - yet.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Nonsense. The leading DRM format for eBooks is MobiPocket, and that certainly hasn't been broken.
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Because we can get the content from other sources.
Ever seen the movie "Sneakers"? There was a scene where Robert Redford was blocked by a door with a digital lock - a lock that was very hard to pick. So he kicked open the door. They put a $1000 lock on $10 frame.
As security professionals say "Security is only as good as the weakest link."
And as Cory Doctorow has pointed out many times, only 1 source needs to be broken to free content.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Most digital formats you buy are "proprietory, closed formats". Take, for example, the "Red Book" standard which controls how music CDs are formatted. That is a proprietory, closed format owned by Philips. You have to buy a licence from Philips in order to produce audio CDs. Are you going to claim that CDs have been a failure?
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It's not closed, since I can rip a CD to my hard drive. It's not proprietary because just about anyone can create software that can read a CD.
You are confusing the format with the legal process to make a company that creates CDs.