When Amazon sees this what do you think they'll do first, fix the crashing android app or add a new layer of protection on their DRM?
How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
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Re: How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
#422Earlier quoted context omitted.
The USA has a lot of criminalised speech, despite the 1A. The most obvious historical example is "I am going to assassinate the president tomorrow at noon", but recently there have been a lot more things you can't say, such as "Fuck Donald Trump" which got someone arrested and deported.
One can have a visa revoked for any arbitrary reason, as they are a guest in the country and not a citizen. But yes, obviously serious threats of violence are not protected speech.
The First Amendment applies to any person in the United States, not just citizens. Visas should not be able to be revoked for "any arbitrary reason".
The fact that your statement is becoming more and more true in the United States is an indictment.
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#423Earlier quoted context omitted.
> they made it against the law to even tell anyone. I’m no fan of the DMCA, but I am pretty skeptical of your apparent claim that this post itself is a potential violation of 17 USC § 1201. Obviously the act of circumvention itself qualifies, as does the code in the GitHub repository the post links to, but can you point to any prosecution of someone for a _prose description_ of circumvention (as opposed to actually m…
> Obviously the act of circumvention itself qualifies, as does the code in the GitHub repository the post links to, but can you point to any prosecution of someone for a _prose description_ of circumvention (as opposed to actually making code available)? There used to be some debate about whether a prose description is equivalent to computer code even though there are proofs in information theory that they are. Engli…
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Re: How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
#424For books only available through Amazon my workflow used to be buying it, downloading it with their desktop app, importing into Calibre, converting to epub and stripping DRM, then pushing it onto my Kobo. They broke that a while ago by making their DRM even worse, so now I just pirate those books.
Books have got to be the least expensive form of entertainment out there. The value to cost ratio is incredible. Consider buying books to support authors and publishers. If you can't afford it, then libraries are nice too. I personally know people who pirate books, but pay hundreds of dollars a year for streaming services or battle pass type video games. It blows my mind. Books are so cheap people! I recently bought…
If you're going to just borrow it from a library, then why not just pirate it? The author/publisher isn't getting paid in either case, and libraries are 1000x less convenient than pirating.
Re: How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
#425For books only available through Amazon my workflow used to be buying it, downloading it with their desktop app, importing into Calibre, converting to epub and stripping DRM, then pushing it onto my Kobo. They broke that a while ago by making their DRM even worse, so now I just pirate those books.
Eventually those physical book scanning cameras are going to be used to read/scan DRM locked ebooks.
There has been a 50% proof of concept, 50% art project by an Austrian university professor to a similar extent:
Re: How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
#426Earlier quoted context omitted.
Books have got to be the least expensive form of entertainment out there. The value to cost ratio is incredible. Consider buying books to support authors and publishers. If you can't afford it, then libraries are nice too. I personally know people who pirate books, but pay hundreds of dollars a year for streaming services or battle pass type video games. It blows my mind. Books are so cheap people! I recently bought…
I have more than 100 books that I bought with actual money on Apple's iBooks (or whatever it was called back in 2010-2012). I no longer use an iPad and would like to be able to read them on my Kindle. Because of DRM, I can't. I'm all for supporting authors and the various editors, etc., but I feel like I've already done that in this case.
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#427Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember when it was illegal to export strong cryptography from the US? There was no law to restrict that, so they just made something up. It basically went like this: Problem: we can't make cryptography exports (software exports) illegal -> what actually IS illegal to export? -> munitions! -> let's just declare that cryptography is "munitions" -> problem solved https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_fr…
> There was no law to restrict that, so they just made something up. That's a rather facetious interpretation. You're complaining that there was no law preventing software being distributed, and as there was a need to prevent that then lawmakers fixed that problem. That's hardly surprising, isn't it? You also seem surprised that including cryptography software in existing lists designed to prevent export of military…
The lawmakers did not have any involvement. The executive branch unilaterally abused its power to declare that encryption was a munition, to work around the fact it had no other power to restrict it without convincing the legislature to actually make a law.
If you go by the common interpretation of "munitions" and by and large the contents of that list, then it clearly does was not intended to include mathematics.
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#428Earlier quoted context omitted.
They do have that right, but at the same time, a chaotic and vindictive adminstration can revoke the visa of, and then physically abduct, a non-citizen. They can then make statements that plainly make it clear they did that because of what the non-citizen wrote. They can also contravene a number of other legal safeguards along the way, and disregard judges' orders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_R%C3%BCme…
> They can then make statements that plainly make it clear they did that because of what the non-citizen wrote. I kind of hate the thing where people want to make this the part that matters, because Trump is a massive outlier who doesn't care about that and says the thing he's not supposed to say. But the people who still do the prosecution under the pretext and then don't admit to why are even worse, because they're…
Norm MacDonald: There's one comedian who said to me that the worst part of the Cosby thing is the hypocrisy, but I disagree.
Jerry Seinfeld: You disagree?
Norm MacDonald: Yeah, I thought it was the raping.
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#429Earlier quoted context omitted.
Books have got to be the least expensive form of entertainment out there. The value to cost ratio is incredible. Consider buying books to support authors and publishers. If you can't afford it, then libraries are nice too. I personally know people who pirate books, but pay hundreds of dollars a year for streaming services or battle pass type video games. It blows my mind. Books are so cheap people! I recently bought…
If you're going to just borrow it from a library, then why not just pirate it? The author/publisher isn't getting paid in either case, and libraries are 1000x less convenient than pirating.
The authors and publishers are getting paid by the library for the physical book borrowed, which endures wear and tear and must ultimately be replaced. Not sure how licensing for digital books work with libraries - all the library systems I've used have a cap on the number of digital books that can be lent out.
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Videogames could give them a run for their money, I guess, but only certain genres.
Most genres really. Even a 60 euros for a 6 hour experience comes at 10 euro per hour, cheaper than music and on par with movies. Add replayability, multiplayer, longer games, cheaper games, ... and many many games are under 1 euro per hour, sometimes far under. Even someone playing fifa or call of duty has a price to hour ratio thats absurdly good. And the range available is insane, used to be if you liked some genr…
I agree in general, it is just that books also score very well in this metric.