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Originally Posted by delphidb96
igorsk,
Exactly. Because if it weren't vendor lock-in, then any ebook I legally purchased would be readable across all platforms, no matter which vendor got my money.
Derek
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Think about that paragraph, that makes no sense. You're linking two unrelated things.
DRM is mean to prevent caual piracy. It's meant to keep me from handing out copies to all my friends. It's unlikely to ever prevent copying by the hackers. The fact that it locks you into a vendor harms the industry if anything. I'm not willing to buy anything that's doesn't have a breakable DRM because I will read my books again years later. I'm not willing to buy them again if the vendor went out of business.
DRM isn't going to lock you into a vendor, the authors that they have signed are going to lock you in.
There are a bunch of DRM vendors because it's profitable if you can become the market leader, and because creating a DRM solution that will prevent 99% of the people from cracking it is an easy problem to solve.users.
Ralph