Thread: Hacks kindlepid/kindlefix 0.2
View Single Post
Old 03-11-2009, 06:33 PM   #79
JSWolf
Resident Curmudgeon
JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
JSWolf's Avatar
 
Posts: 79,796
Karma: 146391129
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
Quote:
Originally Posted by RickyMaveety View Post
This is where I am having the problem. With the idea that a document may only be viewed "on the devices it was meant to be read on." I purchase a DVD, meant to be viewed on a television, but I choose to view it on my computer. I'm am failing to see how the filmmaker, or the company that produced the DVD would be harmed by my decision. Even if I had to create a crack that allowed me to view the DVD on my computer, I would still have to purchase the DVD in order to view it.

The logic behind the law is really making me wonder about whether or not the lawmakers have any connection to the real world. Are they honestly that stupid??
When you view this DVD on your computer, the program you are using to view the DVD with has code to allow you to view this DVD by decrypting the DRM the same way your DVD player does. This is legal. But it might not be legal if the DRM had code that said only in a standalone DVD player can this be used. You'd need to have a program on your computer to read that and still allow it to be used on your computer.

When you shift the DRM so the eBook now works with a Kindle, you are changing the DRM. It's no longer the same DRM. When you downloaded the library eBook and fixed it so it could be viewed on a Kindle, you've just changed the bits in the book that lock it in place. The DRM has been altered, modified, changed. And if Amazon wanted you to be able to view Library eBooks, they would not have created AZW. And we all know AZW was created so Amazon could have total control over the DRMed eBooks for the Kindle. Why else would they change the document type? Amazon owns Mobipocket and if they wanted that to work as is on the Kindle, they would have programmed it to do so. But because that would take some of the control away from from Amazon, they created AZW.

Basically, when you change the DRM, you make the DRM no longer the same DRM as what it was. And thus you take control away from Amazon. This is something that Jeff does not like. I see Jeff as a megalomaniac out to control all the eBooks for the Kindle.
JSWolf is offline   Reply With Quote