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Re:Microsoft's eBook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM by ssivark on Sunday June 30, 2019 @12:39PM (#20319027)
And what about the hours of effort put into reading, annotating, and jotting down notes on the ebook? (Typical of serious reading/research) That is worth way more than $25 -- MS is robbing people of the value they tried to create/store for their future selves. What use is a "platform" if it can't support that?
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Re:Microsoft's eBook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM by zaroth on Sunday June 30, 2019 @04:09PM (#20320217)
This happens every week for people using some SaaS product that gets cancelled.

DRM is content as a service, and by definition, all DRM will either be cracked or will become inaccessible eventually with probability approach 1 over time.

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