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Does a jail broken Kindle allow me to remove the DRM from Kindle ebooks downloaded to it? (I genuinely don't know. Until now, I've always downloaded Kindle pur
by dlenski 2y ago
Does a jail broken Kindle allow me to remove the DRM from Kindle ebooks downloaded to it?
(I genuinely don't know. Until now, I've always downloaded Kindle purchases via ”Download and transfer via USB”, then stripped the DRM and transferred to the device with Calibre.)
- Mindwipe 2y agoNot in and of itself, no. It would allow another source to downloading them from the Amazon website (as that is going away) on to a PC where stripping software can (in some cases) be applied. It also might (but might not) be a way for decryption keys to be extracted from devices for that purpose, but it doesn't automatically provide such an exploit.
- dlenski 2y ago> It would allow another source to downloading them from the Amazon website (as that is going away) on to a PC where stripping software can (in some cases) be applied. Right. I wonder how hard it is, or would be, to simply emulate whatever alternative channel the Kindle devices use to download Kindle ebooks from Amazon's servers. Until now, there hasn't been much motivation to do so, since the "download and transfer via USB" in option existed. But now there obviously will be.