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selfhoster11 on Oct 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Hypertext annotated version of “A Fire Upon th...

> my copy turned into a pumpkin when Amazon retired the Adobe DRM servers

I have never read such an apt analogy for the what remains of "purchased" content after the DRM servers go away.

EdwardCoffin on Oct 23, 2020 [–]

I find this tweet the most representative [1]:

"Reminded that the Microsoft ebook store closes next week. The DRM'd books will stop working.

I cannot believe that sentence.

"The books will stop working."

I keep saying it and it sounds worse each time."

- Rob Donoghue

[1] https://twitter.com/rdonoghue/status/1144011630197522432?s=2...

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