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Re:The Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader is live by mmastrac on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @03:41PM (#2869849)
This is just a simple LZ compression scheme with a per-book, static dictionary. It's trivial to decompress, although that exercise is left to the reader.
Re:The Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader is live by jrockway on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @05:46PM (#2870354)
Excellent. Why is Amazon suddenly going so easy on the DRM? Did they realize it's pointless? Is this a bug? That's what I'm curious about.