Amazon Kindle Proprietary Format Broken 203
An anonymous reader writes "The Register reports that the proprietary document format used by the Amazon online store and Amazon's Kindle has been successfully reverse engineered, allowing these DRM-protected documents to be converted into the open MOBI format. Users of alternative e-book readers rejoice." Here are the hacker's notes on the program he is calling "Unswindle," and here is the (translated) forum where the Kindle challenge was posed and answered.
Priceless quotes... (Score:5, Funny)
.. from the forum that was linked into from Slashdot (well done for that btw kd)...
"Wow, you're a little scary! Well done." - I will use this the very next time one of my developer colleagues finally does a decent job.
"If Guy says you gun, you cannon. No arguments about!" - I will use this the next time one of my project manager "colleagues" puts his/her foot down about something technical that they don't know anything about.
"Already finished rope hook" - I will use this the next time I am telling a colleague that their code or document was so bad that instead of a review I had to re-write the whole thing.
The best quote of course is the new term "Open DRM" that one of the posters has coined. Genius! We should use that as a tag for all similar posts.
Is that you Aldous? (Score:1, Funny)
One would have thought, given your ID, that you were worried they'd do it to Brave New World next.
Re:Nothing new? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:DRM broken? (Score:1, Funny)
I'm pretty sure shipping a DMCA notice to Israel will break the spell-effect they have in the US.
Re:... produced by automatic translation (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah - I got that already :)
You've got to love the new language that Google Translate seems to generate, esp from Hebrew - it's like a whole new generation of 'all your bases...'
Re:Old old story. (Score:1, Funny)
Sigh... we geeks really have to work on our marketing... we need an image consultant!
Sounds like an ideia for a reality show...
Re:... produced by automatic translation (Score:4, Funny)
(ahem, Hebrew has no vowels...)
Re:Users of alternative e-book readers rejoice. (Score:5, Funny)
Somehow we have to invent a one-sentence explanation, that explains “loose” by linking to a Goatse pic, and “lose” as what happens to you, if you actually click that link. ^^
Re:Old old story. (Score:4, Funny)
This is indeed annoying. I find my computer whisperer abilities are significantly enhanced by proximity.