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James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
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February 14, 2023
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Adobe DRM?

  • February 14, 2023
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In a couple of recent discussions of DRM for documents (e-books), references were made to Adobe DRM as an option. I did some searching and all I could come up with are some pages of exceptionally gassy, circular marketing-speak.

 

My understanding is that Adobe's DRM is tied to Adobe Editions/ADE and has limited portability — which is a problematic and deprecated platform.

 

If anyone can confirm or correct that, and/or point me to better technical and implementation information, I'd appreciate it.

 

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Eugene TysonCommunity Expert
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February 16, 2023

I think they all have limitations - from Amazon DMR, Apple, Adobe, all popular but have limitations of tying people to a platform. 

 

Would LCP (Lightweight Content Protection), and Readium LCP be an option?

James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPressAuthor
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February 16, 2023

Oh, I know all the limitations of doc DRM. I am just unaware of Adobe's version being a current and workable option; my grasp is that it's entirely a facet of the largely abandoned ADE platform. And if Adobe has a page that actually answers any questions, I couldn't find it. Just a circular loop of marketing gas.

 

James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPressAuthor
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February 16, 2023

Wow, James. If I had this question, you'd be my go-to guy for the answer! <grin>

I believe Adobe dropped it years back, and generally when Adobe drops a technology, it's done very quiety without much notice or fanfare.

IIRC, there was an Adobe blog post about it.

 


Okay, that's (all) what I thought. My reason for asking, besides possibly filling in a hole in my understanding, was encountering yet another Great E-Publishing Guru going on and on about DRM options, a couple of which I knew to be obsolete, at least one that is not useful to anyone short of enterprise level... and Adobe's, which I was pretty sure was no longer (maybe never) a workable option.

 

These bloviating 'experts,' pouring garbage into the bitstream and aggressively misinforming novices and newcomers, just make steam shoot out of my ears. Thanks for the input on a fairly useless side inquiry.

 

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