To: Steve Jordan
> that's a camera being used to photograph an ebook on a bookreader
Also note that this sort of cute apparatus is only required if the e-book reader is completely closed proprietary system (that no-one has broken into yet).
The device on the photo is CyBook 3 - which means the DRM being circumvented is mobi prc. This format is also viewable on desktop platforms. This means that your content resides in open, easily programmable environment.
It would be reasonably trivial to:
1. Open a DRM-ed file in mobi viewer on your windows machine
2. Take a screenshot of a page area of the viewer.
3. OCR it into plain text.
4. Send "next page" keyboard event to the viewer.
5. Repeat until last two pages are identical.
The capital reason why all this is not routinely done to every e-book in mobi prc format is of course because the mobi DRM can be far more easily removed by application of some very nice python scripts.
You wan't some security - I hear you. Should such a system emerge - it would necessarily be so different from any conceivable copy protection scheme that it would make no sense to call it DRM.
For now.. you're a writer, right? Do what Michael Crichton did. In Next, one of his characters, a child molester, was named after some The New Republic editor who gave him bad reviews. So, start taking names of notorious pirates
