Comments on: Hackers Break Kindle DRM

By: Danny - Kindle Case Blog

Danny - Kindle Case Blog — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:24:37 +0000

I don't know if i agree with breaking the amazon DRM. Amazon has invested a lot of cash to bring ebooks and cheap kindles to market. It kinda seems unfair to break DRM so early. I will be sticking with amazon bought ebooks for the moment.

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By: mcman

mcman — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:28:16 +0000

Amazon is for AMAteurs.

By: Evermore

Evermore — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:20:48 +0000

I am a former DRM supporter. I do not download so much of a song illegally. I've done it in the past, but no more. The problem with DRM is that it A. does little to stop piracy and B. creates big inconveniences for paying customers. It is insulting and anti-competitive when a customer says you MUST use their hardware for listening to a song or book you purchased.

Valve Software's Steam service is DRM done right. It actually provide the customer with benefitis: the software is always kept up-to-date, it adds some social networking, and all the software you purchase will always be available to your account without having to carry around the disks, etc. The average customer doesn't feel slighted, and it's all good.

But with Amazon, it's easy for the average customer to feel slighted. It's a thinly veiled attempt to lock customers into using high prices hardware.

By: solaceinrage

solaceinrage — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:24:17 +0000

Its about definitive ownership for most, not piracy, so don't be a clod. If I purchase a real book, I can put it on any bookshelf I want, take it with me in my car, on the plane, or even loan it to a friend when I'm finished with it. If I pay for a copy of something, that copy is MINE, not amazons, not itunes nor any other vendors, and I should be free to alter it or move it to any device I wish. I pay for my ebooks, but if they are not in a format that I can transfer when the device they are on becomes outdated, then I'm not interested and will go with the actual books instead. It would be different if there were any vendor willing to keep a list of what you purchased so that you could download what you purchased to any new devices, like Steams DLC game client does, but that would rob amazon of the chance to bilk me of more cash for something I've already paid for.

By: Jessicat

Jessicat — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:25:01 +0000

I agree franco. Artist do go on without being thanked. It's a shame. I have bought all my music that is on my ipod. I just don't feel right stealing.

By: Jessicat

Jessicat — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:23:39 +0000

“as proven by Apple with iTunes” This is sort of true, except for the fact that they raised prices and Amazons mp3's are always going on sale. So I tend to buy from Amazon, where the prices are better.

By: franco1975

franco1975 — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:47:40 +0000

I am pro DRM. The artists and publishers have worked very hard to produce the product and rightly deserve to be financially compensated and have their work protected from bottom feeders who plan to just parasite off of them. Without DRM, there is no initiate for artists and companies to continue to innovate because it pretty much becomes a thankless job. I am appalled that this 'group' has managed to crack the AZW code. I'm terribly appalled I tell you! I plan to protest by boycotting all ebooks that do not have DRM.