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Originally Posted by detayls
>> However, 99% of the ebooks you buy for you Kindle you can remove the DRM. Of course, that's between you the FBI and your god.
What makes Kindle DRM removable and not Sony?
Don't have a God. Don't get the FBI reference.
David
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Some nice engineer figured out how to decrypt .azw (Mobipocket) DRM with your unique PID (an ID based on the serial number of your device) and shared the scripts with us. A small percentage of the books at Amazon are Topaz format and still locked. Other nice engineers have shared scripts for decrypting other formats, too. Most recently Adobe's DRM for ePub and PDF were circumvented. No one's figured out how to do that with Sony's DRM yet. In an ideal world, any book I bought would be readable on any device but sadly that's not the case and many business are still trying to lock us in to their device + store combination. Hence the DRM. They say it's to prevent piracy but it obviously doesn't.
The FBI reference is because breaking DRM is arguably illegal here in the United States (as well as some other countries). To date, no one has be prosecuted or sued merely for removing DRM off their purchased books for their own personal use but we would be remiss if we didn't warn you about the potential risks.