12-09-2009, 12:11 PM | #1 |
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Adobe CS5 introduces password-protected ebook DRM
Until now, the DRM-scheme provided by Adobe's Content Server lets users activate their ebooks on a fixed number of devices. This way it was not possible to transfer an ebook to someone else, unless their devices would be authorised first.
According to this article in Computerworld, Adobe intends to add a new DRM scheme in Content Server 5, allowing publishers to select an alternative 'lighter' DRM method, using username and password protection. This way a user can share his ebooks with trusted friends, like relatives or close collegues. The downside: when a username/password combination is illegally spread together with the ebook, there is no 'protection' anymore. With the new DRM scheme, Adobe wants to cater to publishers with different protection needs. Of course, in my opinion, the best DRM is no DRM at all (or social DRM), but it is not up to Adobe to decide this - this is the publishers' choice. (via @wdejager) Last edited by ebookreaders; 12-09-2009 at 12:27 PM. |
12-09-2009, 12:16 PM | #2 | |
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12-09-2009, 12:33 PM | #3 |
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This appears to be the eReader-like approach now used only on the Nook for ePubs, see Adobe and Barnes & Noble eBook Collaboration.
What is new, if the article is correct, is that Adobe is suggesting that the AdobeID and its password are strong enough protection. B&N is using your name and credit card number as the username and password. This is the same scheme, all that differs is how likely you are to distribute the password. It might be viable, given that passworded PDFs are sometimes used as ebooks. |
12-09-2009, 05:28 PM | #4 |
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This is a very significant announcement and will make Epub (even with DRM) device independent. So you will then be able to buy your books from anywhere and they will work on any device (as long as you remember what DRM passwords go with what books)
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12-09-2009, 10:14 PM | #5 | |
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This is more significant than I initially thought, and it does allow any username and password an ebook supplier wants to use, see Customer FAQ: Adobe and Barnes & Noble. Jim Lester might want to comment further, but on teleread he says:
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12-09-2009, 10:36 PM | #6 |
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What I am hoping is that when I purchase an ePub, that I will have the choice of DRM so I can always choose adept since I can strip it.
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12-09-2009, 11:22 PM | #7 |
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Which essentially means that publishers only need to download a pirated ebook to find out that H. Simpson of 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield uploaded it.
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12-14-2009, 07:11 PM | #8 |
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I wonder if CS5 will update Adept at all (meaning device manufacturers will have to put out firmware updates). AFAIK when CS4 came out it updated Adobe DRM, if this is the case I wonder if Inept will still work when CS5 goes into use.
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12-14-2009, 07:24 PM | #9 |
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I shudder when I think it would be possible for someone to include not only my name, but also my credit card number, in some book I want to buy. I can definitely see people abusing this...
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12-14-2009, 08:34 PM | #11 |
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"The risk would be minor", well I've heard that one before. In fact, I hear it all the time. My bank told me that, right up to the time they had to tell me that my cc number was stolen, along with a few hundred thousand (millions?) others, sorry about that. Good luck guys, but I won't be putting my personal info on ANY books for the foreseeable future, thanks very much...
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12-15-2009, 07:41 AM | #12 |
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Once again, your personal info is not stored in the books. As for stolen CC numbers, 99% of them get lifted from databases of shops, banks and CC processors, not by key loggers. There's almost nothing you can do to prevent that besides using one-time-use generated numbers.
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12-15-2009, 08:01 AM | #13 | |
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12-15-2009, 08:07 AM | #14 |
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Definitely sounds like what B&N is/has implemented for the nook and their conversion to epub.
and for vaughnmr and others. Your information is NOT STORED it is only used as a key for the encryption/decryption. This is standard practice for various encryption technologies public/private key stuff and things like that. |
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