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Originally Posted by MovieBird
To follow up on Shaggy's excellent analogy (I'm going to steal that one), the breaker of ADE DRM has this to say:
Essentially, the requirement that you give the key to the purchaser means that they can discover the key in the future. You can obfuscate it, but eventually someone smart enough, with enough time, will crack it if it's popular.
For those that insist on DRM, the only viable option I see is a model where you can only read while connected to the internet, so the program can query a server for the key. However, think of the bandwidth and storage costs to implement such a scheme.
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And if the server(s) are down or your net is or you don't have net access, you are well and truly screwed. No thanks.