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- FirstDigg, on 12/13/2007, -3/+49I don't have a Kindle myself or really plan on getting one, but still nice to see any victory against DRM. I believe in being able to do whatever I want with a device I paid for.
- maulie, on 12/13/2007, -1/+37DRM is evil.
That is all. - Senn, on 12/13/2007, -2/+36So to crack the DRM, you add DRM... Ironic, but amusing.
Still, any product which supports DRM, let alone DRM ONLY content, does not get my vote. - aerogant, on 12/13/2007, -0/+10It doesn't support DRM content *only*, the kindle supports unecrypted content. That is, you can take all the free unencrypted books from this site:
http://www.mobipocket.com/freebooks/default.aspx
And read them on your kindle with out hacking it.
The 'hack' only allows you to use *non-Amazon* DRM ebooks on the kindle. That is if you bought DRMed ebooks from another vendor you could use these scripts to get it to work on the kindle. - hungarianhc, on 12/14/2007, -1/+7What!?!?! DRM was hacked!?!? Crazy!
- ptFoe, on 12/13/2007, -2/+8DRM FTW
It never knows when to quit, even after being cracked on so many occasions. - inactive, on 12/14/2007, -0/+5So I give it 3 months before the whole DRM is cracked outright and ebooks from Amazon are in PDF or txt format. DRM in every form has had a piss poor track record at "protecting" content. It has had a better track record at locking people into a format (hardware), but that seems to be a short term victory.
- QuickFix, on 12/14/2007, -0/+4It's not about anything "Free"... it's about being able to do what you want with the stuff you pay for.
Say I buy a book for my Kindle now, but 10 years from now I buy a newer, better eReader... why shouldn't I be able to read the book I bought 10 years ago on my new device? - ZiggityZhang, on 12/14/2007, -2/+6DRM - Defective by design, defeated by us.
- WordsnCollision, on 12/13/2007, -2/+6Is it pronounced "Ee-gor" or "Eye-gor"? Nevermind...
- AzureRise, on 12/14/2007, -1/+4Wait, so we're ADDING DRM in order to get more freedom out of a product we own?
-head asplodes- - Diggalicious3, on 12/14/2007, -0/+3Well, if you read some of the comments, someone made a good point. I wouldn't really call it cracking the DRM, as any of the Amazon Kindle books you buy will have the DRM. The DRM is not cracked.
- aerogant, on 12/13/2007, -3/+6That means I can buy DRM books from another vendor, rather then just from Amazon, thats cool, although Amazons current prices are quite low already on most of their popular stuff (although their technical books are still pricey :P), and with out hacking I can use free non-DRMed ebooks, like from here http://www.mobipocket.com/freebooks/default.aspx.
But still this is great for people who already have DRMed ebooks from other vendors, and want to get a kindle. - pathy, on 12/14/2007, -0/+3I want a Kindle in the EU, damnit.
- silence7, on 12/14/2007, -0/+2From Amazon....
Q: What's the USB cable for? I'm wondering if you can't just hook it up to your computer and drag files...?
A: If you are traveling outside of a wireless area, you can use the USB cord to copy files from your computer to read on Kindle. All content you purchase from the Kindle Store is saved to Your Media Library on Amazon.com. This allows you to download your books, newspapers and magazines to your computer and transfer items via Kindle's USB connection. You can also use the USB connection with your computer to transfer personal files. Your Kindle can natively read the following file types: documents in text (.txt), and Amazon Kindle (.azw), and unprotected Mobipocket books (.prc, .mobi), Audible Audio books (.aa), MP3 Music files (.mp3).
Most of the e-books I've downloaded have been plain text or .prc files anyway so No Conversion needed... - griz, on 12/14/2007, -1/+3I was under the impression you could already use USB to put content from say the Gutenburg Project. What about the ability to e-mail yourself documents that I keep hearing about? What format are these in?
- griz, on 12/14/2007, -0/+2Found this explanation...cost nothing to convert and then you upload it via USB. Or for a $.10 fee, you can have it sent to your device directly. So this is buried as inaccurate for the opening description.
http://www.dearcali.com/reading-outside-documents- ... - dkm201, on 12/14/2007, -0/+2You're right. As we all know, cracking DRM primarily serves to allow people to use purchased contact on whatever device they want... NOT to massively fileshare. I stand corrected.
- ronintetsuro, on 12/14/2007, -0/+2It was a concession to publishers. The devs knew it wouldn't stand a chance.
Could have put in a nice framed backdoor for us, though. :D - rnewson, on 12/14/2007, -0/+2It's pronounced FRONK-en-steen.
- Hamletlere, on 12/14/2007, -0/+2It certainly does for me. I've never massively shared anything. I buy DRM-less eBooks. If they were DRM'ed, I would have been up a creek without a paddle when I switched from the MobiPocket eBook reader on the Palm PDA to my iPhone. Without the DRM, all of my 150 books moved easily with my upgrade.
Tell me again how locking a purchased eBook to one single device is good for me as a customer? Every eBook I buy is only supposed to have the same short lifetime as a piece of electronics? - Snakedal337, on 12/14/2007, -1/+2Where can I find ebooks at?? I've been trying to find some for my psp, without luck :(
- dkm201, on 12/14/2007, -6/+7Yeah, stick it to the book industry. ***** all those fatcat authors who think they deserve royalties for books they sell! I can just imagine them doing coke off hooker's asses, rolling around in piles of money.
Why should we pay for books, it's our right to have anything free that we want! ***** THE AUTHORS AND PUBLISHING INDUSTRY TRYING TO KEEP US DOWN! I AM ENTITLED! GIVE ME FREE *****! - Jareth86, on 12/14/2007, -1/+2Why do they even bother? DRM always gets hacked; its more of an annoyance then anything else...
- inactive, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1AND for the people that just will grab some ebooks from Mininova or TPB ;)
- mehan, on 12/14/2007, -1/+2"ee-gor" would be closer to the correct pronunciation.
- nonposter, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1Re: copying/reading your own content: See http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-answers-from-team-Ama ...
- Gryffydd, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1Dude....go watch Young Frankenstein.
- kidvitacus, on 12/13/2007, -3/+4here here!
- benitojuarez, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1Im still waiting for the zune marketplace drm to be cracked, I guess they rolled out a new version of drm with the update. I was under the impression that ALL zune marketplace music was drm free but it turns out its only certain tracks and certainly not entire albums. =(
- aerogant, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1I don't like DRM, but there is one thing that is needed, and that is more publishers creating more ebooks. There are still some publishers who have not created ebook versions of their book (I believe the publishers of harry potter don't, for example, although I thought I read they are interested in creating an ebook for the kindle).
DRM is there to get publishers interested in making books. DRM wouldn't be bad to someone like you if you had a large selection of devices you could put it on (at least from what you are saying). As I understand it, mobipockets use of DRM, allows them to re-encrypt your books to work on a device that supports DRM (that is what this hack enables on the kindle BTW). Amazons use of DRM also prevents their ebooks from being read outside of the kindle because they want to corner the market on ebook readers which also increases the interest in publishers to use them, following in the footsteps of Apple and the iPod.
Hopefully at some point ebooks will sell well enough (and ebook readers become really cheap), to get more publishers behind ebooks, and for them to start experimenting with DRM-less eBooks, just like we are starting to see with music. - wvdavis, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1Good night, Frau Blucher.
- niallabrown, on 12/15/2007, -0/+1Books should never have DRM attached to them. This will destroy our literature for future generations. It makes me want to cry when I think of all the books my parents and grandparents have passed on to me.
- marknight, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1The comments in the article are better than the article itself.
- GiggleStick, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1neigh!
- aerogant, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1No, the 'hack' requires you to ask the vendor you bought your ebook from to re-encrypt your books in a way that can be modified to work on the kindle. So if some one uploads those ebooks from their kindle, it will not work with any one elses kindle.
- aerogant, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1You can just use mobipocket reader (www.mobipocket.com) to convert it and avoid the charges.
- fergl, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1Depends on what you're looking for. Give us an idea of what you're interested in, and we can point out some good sites. In the meantime, I assume you've already googled psp ebooks?
- fergl, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1Yes, but those things don't have DRM, so no hack needed for that.
- fatfishy, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1how about getting into an ssh shell on it
- scyon, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1Yes, I like libraries and believe that information should be subsidized by taxpayers for the betterment of mankind.
***** DRM. - whyufail, on 12/14/2007, -4/+4Clearly you've missed the point.
- drunkwally, on 12/14/2007, -3/+3There are a lot of historical books that are free. Some authors release their old stuff free. Look it up.
- Narcism, on 12/14/2007, -2/+2The 80's called, it wants its ***** plastic color back.
- kindlehelp, on 05/31/2008, -0/+0We all need kindle help.
http://kindlehelp.bravehost.com - DigitalPig, on 12/14/2007, -1/+1I think they should say that they find a way to make AZW file by themselves by fake DRM license.
- nonposter, on 12/14/2007, -2/+1Wrong! Buried! The Kindle can ead txt, html, jpeg, and non-DRM Mobi files directly. There are converters available from Amazon and/or Mobi for pdf and doc files.
- Cyber_Akuma, on 12/13/2007, -5/+4Damn, and this device only came out in November!
... what took so long? - inactive, on 12/14/2007, -2/+1Cracking DRM allowed me to listen to my Madlib - Shades of Blue CD. . . . . well actually I returned it to the shop and just downloaded a copy.
DRM is pointless and serves no purpose other than to punish those that have spent money on something. -
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