Kindle DRM reverse engineered
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/23/028215/Amazon-Kindle-Proprietary-Format-Broken
An anonymous reader writes ”The Register reports that the proprietary document format used by the Amazon online store and Amazon’s Kindle has been successfully reverse engineered, allowing these DRM-protected documents to be converted into the open MOBI format. Users of alternative e-book readers rejoice.” Here are the hacker’s notes on the program he is calling “Unswindle,” and here is the (translated) forum where the Kindle challenge was posed and answered.
I’m posting this to use the occasion to mention that actions like this should be allowed but so too should Amazon be allowed to implement and attempt to enforce through service contracts their DRM strategies. One does not own the actions or property of another without prior agreement and a transfer of title. Therefore so called intellectual property statutes illegitimately restrict individuals from freely exercising the usage of their property. Amazon should be able to cancel an subscriptions or services associated with an individuals Kindle but not utilize the government to go after the creators of the crack or to seek damages for the breaking of copyright laws.
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