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ePub gets (yet) another DRM system
https://copyrightandtechnology.com/2...set-to-launch/
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So, the solution to epub fragmentation is...more fragmentation? Adobe and Overdrive must be thrilled. It has all the right buzzwords, though; "open source", "interoperable", "multi-vendor". |
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03-13-2017, 05:40 PM | #2 |
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The problem is going to be that this new DRM will not be successful. As of right now, all (other than Apple) programs or apps that handles DRM and ePub uses Adobe's DRM. If this new DRM came out, these ePub will not work without new programs/apps. No eInk Reader will handle the DRM. I can see this new DRM tank.
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Oh, the new DRM is coming out.
No "if's" about it. They've spent 5 years carefully crafting it so it will check off all the right items on a buzzword bingo card. They're not going to let all that effort go to waste. And it will be used. It might even succeed in driving Adobe out of the ePub DRM business. It might take a decade or two but it could happen... |
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The biggest problem I have with things like this: what if you don't have an internet connection? will it still work? Will I be able to download a dozen books and put them on my non-internet connected device for reading? Will I then be able to put it on another device as well, so I can continue reading it there? And if I get another device and need to change the format, will I still be able to use that book? As long as any of those questions is "NO", I won't even considering buying a book infected with it.
There's only one correct way of DRM and that Social DRM. |
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Think of all of those Readers that are no longer supported that use RMDSK (ADE) and will never be upgraded to handle any other form of DRM. all of those users would be screwed as this new DRM will not work with their devices. People will be pissed if they start buying ePub that they then find out they cannot read because the eBooks are not working with whatever they currently use. This new DRM is just another way to screw with eBooks in an effort to try to get people to dump eBooks and move back to pBooks. |
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As far as MR readers* getting pissed...
The buyers won't get pissed. The DRM will be cracked**. Library users will be pissed. * Mr readers who have no way to update there ereaders ** prevailing opinion is that the DRM would be*** cracked. *** cracked relatively quickly since it would be the new popular/widely used DRM |
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