How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by sib on Thursday October 16, 2025 @08:08PM (#45612120)

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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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by sroussey on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:43PM (#45612593)

Yes, there should have been a law that required interoperable DRM.

At least you can transfer movies around different services. It’s a shame you can’t with books.

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by charcircuit on Friday October 17, 2025 @01:30AM (#45613577)

If there was an actual market demand for this then Kindle could license the technology.

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by sib on Friday October 17, 2025 @01:55PM (#45619730)

Ironically I worked on the project to enable that cross-provider interop for movies...

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by sharken on Friday October 17, 2025 @04:31AM (#45614446)

It should be put into law, that when you buy something, you have the right to do with it what you want for personal use.

In the present case, Amazon clearly states that the customer is buying a book, so it should work the same way as buying a physical book.

One solution would be to buy a DRM free digital version.

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by criddell on Friday October 17, 2025 @08:18AM (#45615882)

I don't see much of an ethical problem with downloading a pirated version of an ebook that you already paid for but can no longer access. If I did that, I'd have no problem sleeping at night.

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by lesuorac on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:22AM (#45617117)

Afaik, format shifting for convince is legal so long as you're Anthropic.

It was mostly a passing mention in the lawsuit against them where the damages are just for pirating books they didn't also buy. The fact that they bought used books and scanned them since its cheaper than ebooks was allowed by the court.

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by criddell on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:29AM (#45617217)

I think the key part was they scanned the books then destroyed the originals. I suppose the analog here would be to log into Amazon and delete the purchased ebooks.

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by bobbylarrybobby on Friday October 17, 2025 @11:21AM (#45617813)

I think they would've been allowed to do the scanning even without destroying the originals. AFAIK destroying the originals was just done to facilitate scanning — they needed the pages to be loose sheets, not bound.

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by criddell on Friday October 17, 2025 @11:26AM (#45617864)

They scanned then shredded the books so that publishers couldn't claim an unauthorized copy was made. All Anthropic did was a format shift which is allowed.

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by sib on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:16PM (#45620015)

I agree with that

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