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Doesn't seem like he actually cracked any DRM - he downloaded the book (as he was apparently entitled to do under his license, 10 pages at a time) and used an i
by Johnny555 11y ago
Doesn't seem like he actually cracked any DRM - he downloaded the book (as he was apparently entitled to do under his license, 10 pages at a time) and used an image editor to remove the watermarks. The digital equivalent of printing it and using whiteout to remove the watermark.
I think it would be hard to prove that he cracked any DRM.
- GPGPU 11y agoDid you read the same article I did? He didn't download the book 10 pages at a time, and he didn't use an image editor to remove the watermarks. He wrote a script that simulated navigating through the book with a mouse and keyboard and a browser, and generated a bitmap image of every page.