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You could still use an older version of the app to force getting a book with the older DRM. I haven't done that in a while though, so I'm not sure if they closed that loophole.
Unfortunately they did close that loophole recently. :(
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> 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.
I think you are trying very hard to imagine inconsistencies where there are none. Not only are you trying to argue that cryptographical software is not relevant to military uses, which is an absurd argument to make, but you are also trying to argue that managing what items feature in an export control list is not the responsibility of an executive branch.
The only requirement to export-control something is that the item features in an export-control list. You're complaining that a specific type of software was added to such a list. Tell me exactly what part you don't, can't, or refuse to understand.
The Github repo (which was working for me until 5 mins ago) just 404'ed. https://github.com/PixelMelt/amazon_book_downloader Kind of expected, but I was surprised at how quick that was.
Does a GitHub archive exist? It sure is something to see code ebb and flow at the whims of the few.
https://archive.softwareheritage.org/ https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Software_Heritage
Hell hath no fury like an engineer angered! This was such a good read and epitomizes hacking: "Was it worth it? To read one book? No. To prove a point? Absolutely. To learn about SVG rendering, perceptual hashing, and font metrics? Probably yes."
Hell hath no fury like an engineer angered! This was such a good read and epitomizes hacking: "Was it worth it? To read one book? No. To prove a point? Absolutely. To learn about SVG rendering, perceptual hashing, and font metrics? Probably yes."
I hope they don't get in trouble for publicising how to defeat the DRM...
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Then I have a physical book to deal with.
Just leave it laying around somewhere. It makes you look erudite.
In the old days, we used to cart boxes of books down to the used book store in exchange for credit, and then load back up with more reading to bring home.
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Just leave it laying around somewhere. It makes you look erudite.
Or like I have a hoarding problem. In the old days, we used to cart boxes of books down to the used book store in exchange for credit, and then load back up with more reading to bring home.
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For those with an old Kindle, couldn't you download it onto the Kindle and then pull it off of there via USB?
That sounds simple, but wouldn't the ebook you "pulled off" the Kindle still be in Amazon's format with DRM? I don't think this solves the original problem.
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For those with an old Kindle, couldn't you download it onto the Kindle and then pull it off of there via USB?
I tried to do this recently but discovered that the DRM algorithm changed and I couldn't use the standard de-DRM tools.