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just to be clear, this does not affect the people who actually pirate ebooks, you can still download mobi files all over the internet and transfer them onto you
by notatoad 2y ago
just to be clear, this does not affect the people who actually pirate ebooks, you can still download mobi files all over the internet and transfer them onto your kindle. it's only an impediment for people who legally purchase kindle ebooks that have DRM intact and want to transfer them to the device via USB.
it's not targeting the ebook pirates who knows about libgen, it's just meant to annoy the people who borrow an ebook from their library and want to keep it an extra couple days by turning off their kindle's wifi. that's what they mean by "piracy".
- Macha 2y agoAlso people that legally purchase them and want to use them with non-kindle readers and applications.
- rahimnathwani 2y agoyou can still download mobi files all over the internet and transfer them onto your kindle Right, but where did the first copy of each of those files originate?
- whatever1 2y agoOh yeah! Hadn’t thought of this. OCR the kindle screen while flipping pages?
- rahimnathwani 2y agoProbably easier to use ADB on Android to both flip and screenshot.
- goosedragons 2y agoNobody does that. Download and Transfer was used because it would give AZW3 instead of the newer KFX file format. DRM on KFX is much harder to remove, if at all. AZW3 is possible, hence why they are closing this "loophole". It's still stupid because basically any book can be pirated in about 10 minutes with a knife and a sheetfed document scanner.
- dlcarrier 2y agoAt least with Libby, the turning-off-wifi thing works even when the book isn't sideloaded.