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Re:Microsoft's eBook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM by m-p-3 on Sunday June 30, 2019 @02:44PM (#20319721)
At least this time it's Microsoft closing down gracefully. I can't see the same happening if it's a smaller, specialized business going bankrupt and going away without the ability to mitigate the shutdown.
Re:Microsoft's eBook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM by usrusr on Sunday June 30, 2019 @03:05PM (#20319847)
In a perfect world they would have put their keys + unlock tools in escrow with a service that would publish them at the first sign of a major outage.
Re:Microsoft's eBook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM by anoncake on Sunday June 30, 2019 @07:09PM (#20321164)
In a perfect world there would be no DRM in the first place.