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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
I'm a little out of the loop. So it seems from what I've read that even though KFX DRM was cracked, the community got fed up doing it because Amazon always quickly fixed the crack. So the community instead turned to cracking DRM on older formats (Az3) available via download on the PC app.
However, Amazon has started to stop Az3 downloads for new books. This means the community will have to crack DRM on KFX, which Amazon will counter.
Will it become as bad as Amazon shutting down Jailbreak loopholes? Can DRM loopholes be practically shutdown, like jailbreaks? I do think that far more resources will be thrown at cracking KFX DRM. It is far more serious than the need for a jailbreak. It will become a game of whackamole. But can the mole be effectively, practically blocked? Will the community run out of loopholes?
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The problem is that Amazon changes the DRM on KFX very soon after the DRM has been cracked. SO at the moment, it's not worth the hassle to try to remove the DRM on KFX. It wasn't because of KFX DRM that Mobi & KF8 got cracked. They were cracked first and then after KFX was introduced and enough became known about it was it worked on until it became too much of a hassle.
Amazon has decided that eBook published on or after January 3rd, 2023 that you will need to latest version of KindleforPC/Mac to be able to download them and they will only download in KFX. The community will not be working on cracking KFX because of this. You either don't buy any eBooks from Amazon published Jan 3 or later or you buy a Kindle device to be able to download using Download and Transfer via USB for eBooks Jan 3 or later.
If you are not wanting to buy eBooks specific to Amazon for those published Jan 3 or later, you could buy the ePub version and remove any DRM from there.
The real problem will come if Amazon will stop allowing KF8 to be downloaded using Download and Transfer via USB and make it download KFX. You might get away with still downloading if you have an older Kindle that supports KF8 but not KFX such as a K3/KK or Kindle Touch.