![]() ![]() DRM interferes with legal uses of copyrighted text, like satire, reuse in teaching materials, and citation in reviews or academic papers.But Kodak, Enron, General Motors, Sears, and the Smith-Corona typewriter company were once “too big to fail” American institutions too. Wait, though, isn’t Amazon too big to disappear? Maybe. If Amazon ever abandons their Kindle business, all your Kindle books could vanish in a flash.Any Kindle book that you “own” can disappear at any time, because of technological failure, change of license, or simple human error.This arrangement is bad for customers, for a number of reasons: But when you “buy” a Kindle book, you’re renting temporary authorization from Amazon to store the book on up to 6 Amazon-approved devices. ![]() You can loan it to someone, trade it, sell it, or just keep it and reread it as many times as you want. When you buy a paperback book, its content belongs to the author, but the physical book belongs to you. The problem here is that America’s copyright lawyers figured out how to change the rules of ownership. But DRM also inconveniences legitimate customers. The stated purpose is to prevent piracy, and for that DRM is modestly effective. I still haven’t got KFX to work for me, but I don’t think I’ve actually broken anything this time.Like many people you own an Amazon Kindle device for reading e-books.Īnd like many companies that trade in digital intellectual property, Amazon includes digital rights management (DRM) software in their e-books. I am very grateful to those dedicated developers who spend their free time reverse-engineering the DRM code. In which case, the existing work-arounds to get KF8 format should still work. It may be that Amazon will update Kindle for PC/Mac very quickly. How long this code will work is anyone’s guess. It also now includes code that should handle the latest KFX encryption used by the latest Kindle for PC and Kindle for Mac. This release incorporates numerous small bug fixes contributed through pull requests to the GitHub repository. To leave a comment, see this post: DRM Removal Tools for eBooks.ĭeDRM_tools_7.2.1.zip can be downloaded from Please update to the latest version if you are having issues. Version 7.2.1 of the tools is now available. ![]()
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