Kindle's DRM Hacked - what took so long?

Tuesday, December 29. 2009

Kindle's DRM Hacked - what took so long?

We've written before on the daftness of using DRM to protect one's business model, its always merely a matter of time before its hacked. News today comes of the Amazon Kindle being hacked - BBC:

An Israeli hacker claims to have broken the copyright protection on Amazon's Kindle software for PCs, reports say.

The hack will allow the ebooks to be transferred as pdf files to any other device.

The only surprise is thats its taken so long. Now, if the Kindle design is half-way smart it will be able to patch the DRM remotely (they seemed to be able to delete people's books remotely so we suspect it is) but of course it will be hacked again.

Posted by Alan Patrick in DRM / IP at 09:36 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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