You can always do OCR on the paper book, so if the easiest way to circumvent some ebook DRM were OCR, the vendor would probably consider that a resounding success.
Which is dumb because that still takes very little time and effort. You can pirate any paper book in like 10 minutes with a decent sheet fed scanner if you don't care about keeping it bound. What a hurdle.
But hey, Grandma Martha can't read her Kindle version on the new Kobo her grandson got her without buying a new copy. Fantastic.
> But hey, Grandma Martha can't read her Kindle version on the new Kobo her grandson got her without buying a new copy. Fantastic.
To the business-people making the kind of decisions we hate, that sounds to them like:
"So you're telling me grandma Martha is not rich, has no big team of lawyers, and they're taking down the agency advocating for consumers rights so no one can stop us if we fck her over and 200 million people more? Seems like it's her problem."*
