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Old 06-16-2010, 10:12 AM   #61
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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
More screwed? If Adobe goes down you won't be able to unlock your books (legitimately) no matter what ADE device you are using.

If Amazon would go under -- you are in the same boat. Your kindle device (whether an actual kindle or a device running kindle software) -- will read all the books you have loaded on it already.

It is not likely that Amazon or Adobe is going to abruptly go out of business any time soon.
Not to sidetrack the discussion, but as we've seen on the music side, the problem with server based DRM systems is, the companies in charge don't even have to go abruptly out of business at all. Microsoft and Yahoo both decided to stop supporting their subscription music services, and shut down their servers. In Microsoft's case, they weren't even getting out of the music business-they just had a different model they wanted to sell, with an incompatible DRM system (Zune Pass).
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