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Old 10-18-2025, 06:35 PM   #1096
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Camera shot pirated movies are not as big a thing as they once were. Movies come out in Digital not long after they leave the cinema and then disc after that. It's rather easy to rip the digital version or the disc version.

Discs are dead. Pioneer stopped producing players and drives, Sony and Panasonic are the only ones left producing them now. Same with drives for PC. Without PC drives there’s no piracy.
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Old 10-18-2025, 06:51 PM   #1097
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I have heard from a highly respected book publisher that the industry is very close to releasing a form of DRM in hard cover books. The book’s cover is impregnated with a DNA reader. Anyone opening the book, other than the first reader, and has reached a certain page (variable) a self-destruction sequence is activated. All ink dissolves leaving blank pages. No longer will you be able to sell, loan or bequeath a book to a second party. Authors are very excited about this as it portends an avalanche of sales. Even used book stores are supportive as they envision prices of already published books will skyrocket.
Sooo...don't let the cat sit on it?
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Old 10-18-2025, 07:18 PM   #1098
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I just don't get it. I do have some favorite authors. Some of my favorite authors have gone Amazon exclusive. I just stopped reading them. There are just too many books out there to choose from for me to be willing to submit to Amazon's restrictions.

The last book I bought from Amazon (before I realized the DRM change), I was able to download from my Oasis but the cover was not is color. So I downloaded the KFX-ZIP from my Colorsoft and Calibre was able to copy the color cover to the liberated file. I haven't bought a book from Amazon since.
You can get the cover of any Amazon book by going to the book's entry on the Amazon site, clicking the cover and right-clicking to copy the image. Then open the metadata panel in Calibre and right-click on the greyscale cover and click "Paste Cover". OK the change and you are done.
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Old 10-18-2025, 08:05 PM   #1099
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Discs are dead. Pioneer stopped producing players and drives, Sony and Panasonic are the only ones left producing them now. Same with drives for PC.
I believe your statement is in error.
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Discs are dead. Pioneer stopped producing players and drives, Sony and Panasonic are the only ones left producing them now. Same with drives for PC. Without PC drives there’s no piracy.
Discs (Audio CD, DVD, BD) are not dead, despite laptops usually not having them built in. VCD is dead.

Pioneer was never a major maker of PC/Mac drives.

Also PC drive isn't the only way to to capture audio or video. Can even be easily done from streaming.
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Discs are dead. Pioneer stopped producing players and drives, Sony and Panasonic are the only ones left producing them now. Same with drives for PC. Without PC drives there’s no piracy.
Also Magnetar makes a 4K Blu-Ray player.

The majority bought are either from Panasonic or Sony. And don't forget that you can play discs with a PS5 and an XBox.

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You can get the cover of any Amazon book by going to the book's entry on the Amazon site, clicking the cover and right-clicking to copy the image. Then open the metadata panel in Calibre and right-click on the greyscale cover and click "Paste Cover". OK the change and you are done.
I noticed that the cover images from the website come in very low resolution. The cover I got from my Colorsoft is much higher resolution. Just personal preference.
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You can get the cover of any Amazon book by going to the book's entry on the Amazon site, clicking the cover and right-clicking to copy the image.
That will give you a low res image.
Use this link...
https://ec2.images-amazon.com/images...AIN._SCRM_.jpg

Replace the ASINHERE with the ASIN for the ebook
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I noticed that the cover images from the website come in very low resolution. The cover I got from my Colorsoft is much higher resolution. Just personal preference.

Use the Amazon Hi-Res Calibre plugin to get covers.
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