Lego robot that strips DRM off Kindle books

http://boingboing.net/2013/09/07/lego-robot-that-strips-drm-off.html

by steven2012 • 13 years ago

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SeanLuke• 13 years ago

but unlike those DRM-circumvention tools, this setup does not violate the law.

A pretty bold claim.

cdcarter• 13 years ago

It SEEMS to exclusively exploit the analog hole, but I'm sure that if it went to the right judge this would fall apart.

andrewaylett• 13 years ago

Do you think you'd get away with photocopying and scanning a paper book?

It probably doesn't violate laws against circumventing DRM, but using it is still potentially copyright infringement.

What it does do that might be useful is legitimately strip DRM from files that aren't protected by copyright or for purposes which are allowed by copyright, where you might otherwise be in trouble for breaking DRM.

benologist• 13 years ago

Summary of http://allthingsd.com/20130906/how-a-man-in-austria-used-leg...

sebastianavina• 13 years ago

tomorrow announcment: Amazon restricts number of "next page" presses per hour.

also: now words will be written with captcas

advisedwang• 13 years ago

Pretty sure this is still circumventing an anti-piracy measure, so falls fowl of DMCA.

lambada3• 13 years ago

The person in question is in Austria, so as far as he's concerned a DMCA claim isn't worth the paper it's written on.

aspensmonster2• 13 years ago

That didn't stop the MPAA from marshalling itself and a legion similarly aligned interests into a quite magnificent beast to behold in Sweden when they finally got sick of The Pirate Bay. The DMCA might be an American piece of legislation, but copyright treaties pretty much guarantee that all of the western world is subject to U.S. Law.

atlantic• 13 years ago

fowl --> foul

infocollector2• 13 years ago

This might be also of interest to ebook lovers: https://register.blib.us (A Privacy friendly platform for accessing and searching your books from anywhere).

theon144• 13 years ago

I have a dillema. You are, beyond any shadow of doubt, spamming the hell out of the service on HN.

On the other hand, the service does look pretty cool.

infocollector2• 13 years ago

Thanks for your comments. I apologize and will stop posting links on topics I thought were relevant to Blib. We tried to submit Blib on "show hn", but that did not fly (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6272213). Its hard to advertise/show/market/demo when one is on a shoe-string budget, or a better way to put it is: We haven't learnt that art as coders.

mbrubeck• 13 years ago

In a MetaFilter thread, one of the commenters pointed out that the story being copied in the video is "Kiosk" by Bruce Sterling, a story about (among other things) the government trying to hold back a social revolution triggered by 3D printers:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080115084153/http://www.sfsite....

jessedhillon• 13 years ago

This must be why none of the new Kindles have page forward/backward buttons, despite their providing a decidedly superior experience to the awful touch UI.

Kidding (probably)

Lego robot that strips DRM off Kindle books

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