Kindle, DRM, Cracked - same old same old

Thursday, December 13. 2007

Kindle, DRM, Cracked - same old same old

Kindle's DRM latest to be hack'd (from Engadget)

We knew the Kindle's DRM would be cracked the minute we heard about it, and it looks like the first chink in the armor is here courtesy of Igor Skochinsky: he's discovered the algorithm the Kindle uses to turn regular Mobipocket books into Amazon's proprietary .azw format. The hack involves replacing a Mobipocket file's PID with one generated from your Kindle's serial number, and then setting a Kindle-specific flag that allows it to be opened.

Why do they persist with these systems that protect no-one and p*ss off their customers - its as clear as anything that any DRM will be cracked within weeks, if not days.

Makes you wonder about Western Digital's DRM-our-disk-out-the-market play - anybody daft enough to buy one risks losing all their stuff when they end-of-life it and no longer support the product.

Posted by Alan Patrick in DRM / IP at 08:05 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Top Exits (0)

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