Why DRM Doesn’t Work

This is reality.

"Why DRM Doesn’t Work" by TeddyPig was published on March 2nd, 2010 and is listed in Common Sense.

Alex Beecroft wrote,

Yep, that’s what happened to me (apart from the bit at the end.) I’ve only tried to download one DRM ebook so far, and it did end with me going to a different ebook store and buying something else instead.

Link | March 3rd, 2010 at 3:29 am
BevQB wrote,

heheh, who hasn’t been there for one thing or another?

Although, in all fairness, I have to say that I’ve been regularly downloading audio books from a couple of different library systems (Overdrive DRM) in addition to Audible and I haven’t had any problems. The real trick with the library books is to get them off my PC and onto either my MP3 player or burned onto CDs ASAP so that they don’t expire.

I haven’t tried any ebooks yet though. In fact, I don’t have a clue how that could work at all with all the different device-specific ePub DRM.

Link | March 3rd, 2010 at 5:17 am