Igor, first let me say that I think you are doing an amazing and, in my opinion, very important work. I believe that in the end, DRM'd books will be a thing of the past, just like DRM'd music, which is dead already, and in no small way thanks to the people like you. What we need is a blanket worldwide license for all kinds of content and the sooner it'll become a reality, the better.
Now, as for your current mobipocket-kindle hack which sparkled an 8-page long debate in this thread, it seems to me that it doesn't really work the way people think it does. The moment the vendor you are buying your books from decides to block Kindle IDs, that's it. From reading your new blog it is obvious that mobipocket.com doesn't allow you to redownload your files with a Kindle ID already, so the whole row is pointless. It is impossible to buy a book from Mobipocket.com and read it on the Kindle. You are saying that Fictionbooks works fine, but that's only for the time being.
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Originally Posted by igorsk
So yes, with a little modification you can make a tool to add extra PIDs to a Mobi file (which AZW is) without actually decrypting the content and read it on your PC or other devices. You decide whether it's legal or not... I guess it depends also on your country of residence  |
I suppose that a tool which would allow one to add PIDs to files without the vendor's involvement is what is really needed by humanity. Leaving apart the questions of legality, of course.