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Originally Posted by nogle
With an eBook, as long as you maintain software capable of reading the file, you can read it (assuming again that you maintian the ability to read). As far as I am aware, the onus is on the user to maintain the ability (software) to access the file.
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The problem is precisely that you don't have the possibility to maintain the way to open DRM files by yourself. DRM are closed-source, protected by patents, and it is generally illegal to circumvent them. So owning a DRM protected file is simply owning the authorization to read its content for an undefined duration.
Of course, if the DRM is no more protected, or if the law changes, then you are right. But in this case, the DRM have no more purpose.