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Yes, but with Kindle at least you can strip the DRM of your eBooks. There's a Calibre plugin[1] that does it. If you really care about ebooks that you purchas
by romwell 6y ago
Yes, but with Kindle at least you can strip the DRM of your eBooks.
There's a Calibre plugin[1] that does it.
If you really care about ebooks that you purchase, I highly recommend installing this plugin. It automatically strips DRM off books you download and open with Calibre.
And keep a back-up of the (DRM-free) books somewhere that's not Amazon / a cloud. Because a cloud is simply a computer that you do not own.
[1]http://www.geoffstratton.com/remove-drm-amazon-kindle-books http://www.geoffstratton.com/remove-drm-amazon-kindle-books
- hyperman1 6y agoNote how this is in most jurisdictions illegal. You are now pirating, except you paid for it.
- gambiting 6y agoIf by "most jurisdictions" you mean pretty much just US, then sure.
- kranner 6y agoIs it really illegal? At least in the US cracking DRM for personal backup is not infringing AFAIK. https://gizmodo.com/its-perfectly-legal-to-tell-people-how-to-remove-drm-1670223538 https://gizmodo.com/its-perfectly-legal-to-tell-people-how-t...
- giancarlostoro 6y agoThis is what makes ROMs for games for game consoles fully legal assuming you ripped them from physical copies. Not sure how anyone would prove you didnt generate the copy yourself.
- romwell 6y agoUm, citation needed for that claim.
- gambiting 6y agoWell, but that's like saying that you can download cracks for video games, so it's all fine. There are ways to make steam games work without steam, yet I wouldn't consider that to be a solution.
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- giancarlostoro 6y agoI sorta used to do this so I wouldnt need to pop in a CD just to play some games cause the CDs were getting really scratched up as things were.
- Joker_vD 6y agoOr take this actual example: you buy a CD with a game, install it, and it doesn't run :( You go to the forums and there is a crack which also apparently fixes some crashes? You download and apply it, and lo, the game runs :) In fact, I believe in some jurisdictions it's actually legal: since you bought it, you're allowed file and sandpaper it to make it actually work.
- exolymph 6y agoThe last time I tried actually doing this, it was a huge pain in the ass: https://www.sonyaellenmann.com/2018/09/back-up-kindle-files-mac.html https://www.sonyaellenmann.com/2018/09/back-up-kindle-files-...
- romwell 6y agoI have a Kindle; it took me about five minutes to follow the instructions once, and it was automatic after that.