But that day seems not to be now, unfortunately. Perhaps some future generation will care again, some day. I'd guess that generation has grown old and younger generations don't care about such things, as they more or less grew up in the world of dictating mega-corporations. Who would have thought it? How the world has changed. Now the Bezos's of the world (and at one time it was the Gate's of the world) say "jump" and we all reply, "how high?" A kind of "freedom of expression", a battle of wits or a "stick it to the man" thing. I believed (mistakenly maybe) that the people with those qualities you list, intensely disliked being "defeated" and rose to the challenge for their own satisfaction. I recall all the arguments about DRM and it never being about "pitrating" but about people's freedom to choose - not to be dictated to by big corporations or governments - not unlike all the reasons Phil Zimmerman (and followers) fought for PGP back in the 90's, or the animosity to windows in the early days. I don't disagree with you or the other replies. It takes someone with a combination of interest, reverse engineering skills, and drive. (Is it? I didn't keep up to be honest.)ĭefeating DRM has always been more of a lone wolf past time. Hopefully ADE 2.01 will be supported indefinitely or ADE 3.x or later will be DeDRM-able. I'm not going to keep a credit card just for that.) (I nuked it because I only used it to buy stuff if there was absolutely no other option and I bought 5 books from Amazon in 12 years. Maybe I'll resurrect it, but the last time I looked, the only way to pay for eBooks at is by credit card and I don't have one anymore. I have an old Kindle from 2012 (the KPW1). So I can actually nuke the Kindle4PC apps, versions 1.17 and 1.26, that I painstakingly set up and tested under Wine because they just don't download ebooks anymore? At present the only choice you have for newly published books is to have an actual Kindle device registered to your account, method #3 in the first post of this thread.
And you cannot remove DRM from books downloaded with the latest version. You can no longer use older versions of Kindle for PC to download newly published books.
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