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

rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s also a pricing issue as well.
  
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EffortlessEffluvium@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The analog hole works on a lot of stuff

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- rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  MakeMKV is in AUR :) Sure, it’s not playing a disk…
  
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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

require you to screenshot/OCR it

So just like what people do with paper books.

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- rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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