Kindle DRM Hacked
I normally hate re-posting other blog content, but this is directly related to some of my previous e-reader posts.
TechCrunch reports today that a hacker may have solved one of my major gripes about the Amazon Kindle. He’s apparently come up with a way to strip the DRM from Kindle books so they can be turned into a PDF and read on other readers.
I can only hope that Amazon and the publishing industry doesn’t go all RIAA on this and lose their mind. If Amazon has any ability to think out of the box, they might realize that they could leverage their position as the dominant bookstore and actually sell to Sony and other e-reader customers. Because the Sony bookstore certainly doesn’t have the depth that Amazon has. And it’s not nearly as easy to shop, ever after the latest 3.1 update to the software.
So bravo Labba …
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- 23 December, 2009 @ 23:19 [Current Revision] by Rob
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