Apple MacBook, Mac Tablet and PC devices. As of 2018, Apple MacBook — Wikipedia Adobe Digital Editions is based on the Adobe Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Copyright violation notice (DMCA letter) — Adobe DRM Download This article explains the digital rights' management technology (DRM) used in Adobe Digital Editions. The process of Digital Rights Management (DRM) uses DRM to protect copyrighted works from pirates. The software implemented an application-wide copy-protection, thus preventing pirates from reading your e-book files. The application is installed on every system, which has access to e-book files. Adobe Digital Editions is based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a copyright reform act passed in 1998. Since 1998, DMCA has been used to counter software piracy and piracy of digital images. In the current phase of the piracy, users are sharing files via torrent sites. Due to the widespread and effective piracy, the publishers and authors are in need of new methods in order to protect their works. The DMCA is one such option used to address this problem.