Saturday, December 26, 2009

eBook: A hacker breaks DRM Amazon Kindle

Christmas Sale for Amazon? An Israeli hacker has announced that it had managed to break the system of digital rights management, or DRM, associated with its electronic book reader, the Kindle. Thus, it becomes possible to export to PDF eBooks acquired proprietary format used by Amazon in its booth download the. AZW.

Labbe, the author of this hack, merely be a "challenge" issued on the forums hacking.org. In publishing the rules for operating the flaw he discovered, he still takes care to remind his tool is intended to be used on books purchased legally for use on d ' Other devices that Kindle. Interoperability as a justification of piracy? Amazon has so far not responded to the announcement, but probably will respond quickly.

Sold approximately 175 euros, the Kindle is now the product most exported to France from the U.S. site of Amazon. It opens access to a catalog of some 300,000 books, among which we find at the moment that few books in French. Very popular across the Atlantic, he now faces competition from more and more sustained. Sony or Barnes & Noble now offer competing terminals while offering considerable develops mobile, notably through the App Store from Apple.

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