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Some Thoughts on LCP eBook DRM
There's a new(ish) DRM scheme in town! LCP is Readium's "Licensed Content Protection". At the risk of sounding like an utter corporate stooge, I think it is a relatively inoffensive and technically interesting DRM scheme. Primarily because, once you've downloaded your DRM-infected book, you don't need to rely on an online server to unlock it. How does it work? When you buy a book, your vendor…
LCP is a (paid for) ISO Standard which is maintained by a foundation which is primarily run by an EU non-profit. When you load the LCPL file into a reader, the app downloads the ePub and sends some data back to the server. When the DeDRM project published a way to remove LCP 1.0, they were quickly hit with legal attacks.
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