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Originally Posted by John F
Couldn't it effect everyone who bought from Sony, due to the DRM? I'm a little iffy on the how Adobe DRM works, but...
Sony would probably close their store, so any ADE DRMs purchases would be locked to the registered devices at the time the store closed?
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
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What HarryT said. The DRM verification is done through Adobe's servers, not Sony's; the books would be able to read on any device activated through ADE.
They wouldn't be re-downloadable after Sony closes the store (obviously), and if Adobe changes its DRM system again, the books might not be usable, but that's not likely to happen soon.
Books in the older LRX format wouldn't be usable on new devices, but that's already the case; people would just have to make sure to re-download those in the newer epub format before Sony closes.
As always, the advice for keeping permanent access to one's purchases is "download, crack & backup;" you never know when an online store or software company is going to change its marketing strategy so that previous purchases no longer work on new devices. In this case, however, access to Sony store ebooks isn't based on Sony's actions; the DRM goes through Adobe. Odds of Adobe changing its DRM so that older ebooks won't work on new devices are low. And Adobe's been relatively polite about DRM--when they phased out their last DRM system (the one that worked through Acrobat 6), they announced it long in advance and warned people to re-download those books through ADE.