Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books

_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s no impossible because if you can see it, it can be captured and digitized, but there is a level of complication that can make it unreasonable. They could make it unreasonable to crack the drm outright and require you to screenshot/OCR it. Then they can limit the OS to make to difficult to automate capture.

  Bottom line, they’re just kicking payers off their network when it’s easier to pirate it than to buy it through their service.

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  • czl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Something something, piracy is a service problem. That’s why Spotify et al. still thrive, but more and more the Netflixes of the world are being replaced with yaaar

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    • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s also a pricing issue as well.

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  • EffortlessEffluvium@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The analog hole works on a lot of stuff

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s my post apoc Youtube plan. Play on a sanctioned browser with videos and use comskip, write them off to my storage.

      We’re going back to my TV->AVI setup from 2003, only maybe we’ll use HVEC this time.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    but there is a level of complication that can make it unreasonable.

    Lol, just read the Arch Wiki about Bluray playing. Unreasonable only needs a bit longer.

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      MakeMKV is in AUR :) Sure, it’s not playing a disk…

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    require you to screenshot/OCR it

    So just like what people do with paper books.

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What GOOGLE did WITHOUT PERMISSION to paper books. ;)

      I’ve imaged a few short books with a cellphone and page correction software.

      It takes dedication to make a pleasant final product. But those vacuum book scanners are freaking amazing.

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• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just wait until you can only stream books, not download them, with random words replaced with synonyms using an algorithm that lets them track down who the originator of any scanned copies is.

  That might sound ridiculous, but streaming-only to prevent perfect copies and hiding purchaser identifiers in the data are both DRM techniques that have been explored in other media already. There’s no limit to how anti-consumer publishers can get when they think there’s slightly more money to be had.

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  • piecat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Log2(8.2billion) is about 33. That means if each word only had 1 synonym, you only need to change 33 words to uniquely identify who was responsible.

    21 words need to change if each has 3 options. 17 words for 4 options.

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    • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then we change an additional 100 words in the process, and their tell becomes a tale.

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