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Originally Posted by roebeet
What's the pattern, here? DRM. It, by it's very nature, makes content consumption limited in usage. Think you're safe with Amazon or Apple? I doubt it. Maybe 10 years, maybe even 20 - but I doubt that ebook you bought today will be readable when you're old and gray, more likely the license servers will have been shutdown and / or the company has gone out of business, or out of that particular business.
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Or the service of maintaining those old licenses (which costs without bringing in any revenue) will be "sold" to a shell company that can shut down the servers without making the original vendor look so bad.
DRM is more about removing the competition from already purchased goods than it is about removing piracy.