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Old 07-22-2005, 04:19 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Chaos
But I do wish there was some DRM scheme that would work exactly like a paper book... It can be transferred and copied everywhere, given to anyone and so on, as long as there was only one copy at any given time... :< Like I said, unrealistic, but, in a perfect world..
It does exist, its called Polymorphic Encryption, and it can easily be put into a DRM-like scheme, but nobody has done it yet.

The technology exists, just not the motivation necessary to deploy it intelligently in electronic books.
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