How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

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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