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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
They have. Then Amazon changed it, sometimes within hours.
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i get that. Its an ongoing dance. hence me suggesting the current panic is in need of a HHGTTG towel or two
there was much doom and gloom & FUD in these forums when 1st gen " uncrackable" kfx debuted ~2018
i confess to be ignorant of the precise trick bits within A's current build-a-wall. but if the feeble brain of a years-old kindle can decrypt it, then surely some very smart guys with state-off-the-art PCs and hacking tools will find a way
another of my annoying analgoes follows so feel free to stop now
music and video
record industry loses billions thru vinyl-to-cassette tape coping. tries everything they can think of, even lose a lot more lobbying for an anti-piracy levy on every blank tape sold...
but then they invent CD - shiny new hi-tech- and think hey we could DRM THAT. but it aint cheap and cooler, wiser heads prevail...
with hind-sight and Billions of lost revenue, the media industry realises they rue the short term cost savings of not having hard drm after standardising on a CD format, with no copy-protection at all.
They see a chance of redemption with DVD so invest heavily in very smart cryptology, and encrypt every DVD sold. unfortunately then were dumb enough to not protect some private master key and once that was out in the wild you could buy dvd copy software that worked...
well OK, 2 strikes down but now we have Blu Ray , we've spent 10x on the encryption this time around, so they launch Blu Ray with
betcha can't crak this drm on every shiny disc... well guess how that turned out.
with 90GB storage to spare and some shareware trial you can backup your latest blu ray purchase and store it forever ( until it succumbs to bit rot )
its an arms race that Amazon, like Sony before them, can never win
i bet in six months time we'll be back shopping at amazon , making our clean backups again and saying " well that didn't take long..."