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Originally Posted by BobR
Restrictions from DRM may last much longer than the period of time that the material is protected by copyright law, effectively extending copyright terms in a de facto manner. There is no automatic expiration of DRM to match copyright periods.
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Not an issue to the big copyright holders. They are working to make sure that copyrights never expire. Therefore DRM not expiring is not an issue.
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Originally Posted by Chaos
Wherever DRM exists, it can eventually be broken, if there is enough motivation... Thus making the DRM useless.
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Which is why the big copyright holders paid for the DMCA.
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Originally Posted by Colin Dunstan
Today libraries are being slowly replaced by digital content providers and search engine giants.
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Without a doubt. In the eBook World, libraries face the same irrelevance as publishers. In the end, there will be only a handful of libraries (because having only 1 copy of all works is a bad idea) which will be no more than very large file servers where you can search for the books you want (Why does Google Books come to mind?).