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Is e-book DRM even remotely effective? It seems like with something like the Kindle web reader, it would be trivial to write a script that took screenshots of
by trothamel 11y ago
Is e-book DRM even remotely effective? It seems like with something like the Kindle web reader, it would be trivial to write a script that took screenshots of every page of the book, and optionally applied OCR.
Of course, this could also be done with the physical devices and an appropriate machine to press the buttons. The "Analog Hole" is quite present in books, which can be reproduced with no loss of quality.
I actually wonder if the Kindle DRM is more a way of appeasing publishers than something that was actually intended to be effective.
- masklinn 11y agoDepends what you mean by "effective". It's similar to e.g. steam or appstore DRM: relatively easy to trivial to bypass (or you can access the content with bypassed/removed DRM easily enough) but the system is convenient enough that most won't care to do so unless and until it's being repeatedly and widely (ab)used by the keys authority. It won't hinder the motivated and technologically inclined but they're a small minority, meanwhile the scheme spreads, and if/once devices or accounts get killed it's too late.