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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by mNovak on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:05PM (#45612401)
Tangentially related to the question of legality of prose describing otherwise illegal instructions, I'm reminded of the epic DeCSS haiku [1]. (CSS here being 90's era DVD DRM).

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/decss-haiku.txt

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by dylan604 on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:47PM (#45613154)
Content Scrambling System vs Cascading Style Sheets

I do remember trying to learn CSS for web definitely made me feel like it was a Cascading Style Scrambling

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by theandrewbailey on Friday October 17, 2025 @07:04AM (#45615293)
Layout engines back then were pretty bad, and often resulted in scrambled web pages.
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