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That enabled people to buy Mobipocket books from other vendors and read them on their Kindles. Igorsk developed a tool that generated a "PID," or a unique device-specific encryption key, used for Kindle e-books that enabled Mobipocket books with DRM to be read, "I love cabbages" said.

The Mobipocket format is still relatively popular.Ī hacker named "igorsk" discovered that books in the Mobipocket format with DRM could still be read on the Kindle. "Laws such as the DMCA turn those restrictions into injustice by making their circumvention illegal."Īmazon's proprietary ".azw" format is derived from a format called Mobipocket, which came from a French company of the same name that Amazon purchased, "I love cabbages" said in the e-mail exchange. This method works at the time of this writing, and may stop working tomorrow, as soon as Amazon change things."Primarily, I view DRM as an unnecessary restriction on legitimate freedoms, such as fair use of copyrighted material," the hacker said in an e-mail exchange.

Last but not least: DRM is a cat-and-mouse game.

That’s just not fair, so please don’t do it. If you do this, you don’t hurt just Amazon, but the individual author who wrote the book you’re sharing with others.

If you are a decent human being, I trust that you will not distribute the content you de-DRM.

Whatever you do or not do is your own responsibility. I am not telling you to break the law, merely informing you about technology. Laws change from country to country, and I’m sad to say that in some countries, it is now illegal to actually own content you bought.

Stripping DRM may be illegal in your country or state.

Again, I quote from the Kindle Store ToS: “you may not bypass, modify, defeat, or circumvent security features that protect the Kindle Content.”

By taking ownership over the books you paid for, you are doing something they specifically told you not to do.

A few important caveats you should keep in mind before proceeding with DRM removal: