Re: DRM-PID question

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, auwg wrote:

> I just received this from Cyberread.com:
> ------
> "We have eliminated the need to store your "PID" for Mobipocket books
> on CyberRead.com."
>
> They receive my Mobi-format titles from Mobipocket, so how are 
> they getting around use of a PID? Or maybe I just don't 
> understand how PIDs work. That's very possible, since I've 
> always left such details up to the retailers. Ed

The real test would be to do a fresh install of Mobipocket on a 
new device, which (as I understand it) will give you a new PID.
Then try using an ebook on this install. If the book appears, 
then they have eliminated the need to even track the PID at all.

In other words - they may have stopped using TPM (also known as 
DRM).

They may decided that tracking PIDs was more effort - for both 
them and customers - than the benefits gained. In particular, 
they may have found that a large fraction of their support calls 
- a noticeable cost - can likely be eliminated by dropping PID 
requirements.

If there are "un-PID" utilities commonly available - which 
reduces the value of the PID-based protection - then they may 
have decided that the benefit of PIDs and the associated 
protections simply weren't worth the costs.

:: chris smith ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecuna possit - cicero ::


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