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This is like the " I'll never buy a game from xxxx outrage" that happened when uncrackable DRM denuvo was applied to some computer games.. within weeks we saw the first break and after a few months it was an easy bypass. So you have the option to continue buying and wait for some smart apprentices to find a way around it It would be interesting, in a separate thread, to discuss how it works and then how to break it, except that it would be against the rules? Maybe on a different site, those discussions are already happening. The I am curious "how does it work" bit would be ok here ? |
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01-09-2023, 01:54 AM | #108 |
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I'm not going to strip the DRM to share what I buy on the net, but a reminder that the DRM just causes headaches to those who actually buy the book (while doing exactly 0 for piracy). |
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01-09-2023, 03:59 AM | #110 |
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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..." |
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01-09-2023, 04:26 AM | #112 | |
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At least on the device you "bought" it on. There's K4PC, or the Cloud Reader. |
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01-09-2023, 04:32 AM | #113 |
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Question -- does the Kindle connected to the Amazon account need to be an older one for "download and transfer via USB" to work for de-DRM purposes, or can it be one from the last 2-3 years as well?
I ask because my country is poor enough that the second-hand market for more niche devices like e-readers is almost nonexistent and the few older Kindles I could find second-hand were either busted beyond repair or I couldn't trust that they hadn't been blacklisted. The newer SH ones were so close to retail pricing that I finally decided to just buy a new one, rather than risk a blacklisted device. I went with a 2019 Kids' Edition (the cheapest I could find in our shops) and now I'm worried I'll get the newer ebook format rather than the older, cracked one when downloading. |
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Question -- does the Kindle connected to the Amazon account need to be an older one for the "download and transfer via USB" option to work for de-DRM purposes, or can it be one from the last 2-3 years? I ask because I'm worried I'll end up with the new, unbroken format, vs the older one.
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01-09-2023, 04:49 AM | #117 | |
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Indeed, and my problem has only one solution: do not buy anymore from Amazon.
The OP wondered why it was a necessity to stop buying from Amazon only because their content couldn't be deDRM anymore. And my answer was related to that: it's a necessity to stop buying from Amazon because - as long as I can't deDRM it - I can't read what I buy on my e-reader. And this regardless of my personal stance over my ownership of the ebooks I buy. Amazon can do whatever they want with its DRM policy. They won't care about a small minority of us who won't access anymore their content. Fair on them, fair on us not to buy from them something we have no use for. |
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