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Anyone know why it takes so long? Shouldn't it be possible to crack the DRM on Kindle (or other) ebooks and pirate them? I thought the reason it was so hard to
by w1ntermute 16y ago
Anyone know why it takes so long? Shouldn't it be possible to crack the DRM on Kindle (or other) ebooks and pirate them? I thought the reason it was so hard to pirate books in the past was because they had to be scanned (and preferably OCRed).
- CWuestefeld 16y agoKindle was cracked at least a year ago. I haven't actually used it, but from what I read it's not a crypto flaw allowing the data to be extracted, but more analogous to the "analog hole". The existence of on-screen readers allows software to be written that walks through the book a page at a time, and rips the content in that way.
- w1ntermute 16y agoDon't you lose the formatting then? That's not really an optimal solution.
- pangram 16y agoIt's a bit cleaner than that -- it gets the decryption key from the reader with the Windows debugging APIs, and then removes the DRM. You're left with the original ebook.
- w1ntermute 16y agoAh, that's good to hear. Using the analog hole leaves you with a pretty poor copy of most digital files.