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Originally Posted by VictoriaP
is there any reason to believe that the new DRM scheme won't be cracked relatively soon?
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If it's like the Kindle for Windows scheme, it's going to need disassembly and reverse engineering of the new Kindle software to work out how the per-book PID is generated. Even when that's done, it might be that the information used to generated the per-book PID isn't user accessible information on the Kindle - it might be necessary to write a Kindle app (or some other hack) to extract the info from a Kindle.
Bear in mind that the Kindle for Macintosh scheme hasn't been cracked yet, because no-one's disassembled the Kindle for Macintosh program well enough yet to reverse engineer the scheme there - it's probably similar to the Kindel for Windows scheme, but must be using different info, as the available system info isn't identical between Mac and Windows.
It might be that someone's been working on it feverishly since the first 2.5 beta, and it'll be out tomorrow. It could never happen. No-one knows, until or unless it happens.