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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
The draconian DRM (publishers controlling my computer hardware?) you envision is simply Not Possible, even if it wasn't morally suspect...
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You're breathing a lot more into it than I'm proposing. (For more detail on exactly what I am proposing,
read this essay.)
I won't spell out the rest of my opinions here, they are covered in the essay. I will say that the points you mention have been addressed by other security systems, which have been accepted by the public... they are not show-stoppers. And yes, I realize people will still be able to go to a lot of trouble to reproduce the text, page by page, and re-release it. The key is to make it not worth the trouble to do so, nor to bother to accept such a file. With the right combination of good product and acceptable security, this is very do-able.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
the new digital economies won't be dependent on preventing copies. They may be dependent on discouraging copies, but they'll use different methods for that, not something that keeps customers from reading their previously-purchased ebooks on their new tablets.
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Exactly.