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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by bee_rider on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:58PM (#45612079)
I wonder how that will if/when LLMs get to the point where they can turn a blog post about a DRM liberation into code. (Are they there already?)

These sorts of code are usually pretty short, right? It isn’t as if it needs to be maintainable or have a nice GUI.

Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by semiquaver on Thursday October 16, 2025 @08:00PM (#45612091)
I was thinking along the same lines. One of the many places that laws are going to have to catch up to reality. I’m 90% sure that current frontier models could turn this post into a working implementation with a good feedback loop.
Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by jMyles on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:47PM (#45612616)
> that laws are going to have to catch up to reality

Reality is moving away from states, and is now moving faster than legacy "laws" can ever hope to catch up.

That's a big part of what's fueling the wave of abandonment of DRM. I mostly play bluegrass - and given the lineal connection between traditional music and internet freedom, it probably comes as no surprise - but every serious bluegrass album is DRM-free now. Every grammy winner in the bluegrass and americana categories since at least 2020 has been DRM-free.

https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/DRM-free

Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by SanjayMehta on Friday October 17, 2025 @06:56AM (#45615241)
I tried this and got plausible looking python code based on just the web page link. Can't test it as I'm travelling without my laptop.
Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by qingcharles on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:35PM (#45639229)
They are there. Don't wanna say too much because of the DMCA. Worked on some ebook stuff recently. I even had some ebooks that had unknown encryption passwords on them. Claude came up with a 137-step plan to figure out the passwords and after about 50 different combinations of data it found the matching one.