Lego robot that strips DRM off Kindle books

[mbrubeck]

In a MetaFilter thread, one of the commenters pointed out that the story being copied in the video is "Kiosk" by Bruce Sterling, a story about (among other things) the government trying to hold back a social revolution triggered by 3D printers:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080115084153/http://www.sfsite....

[SeanLuke]

> but unlike those DRM-circumvention tools, this setup does not violate the law.

A pretty bold claim.

[cdcarter]

It SEEMS to exclusively exploit the analog hole, but I'm sure that if it went to the right judge this would fall apart.

[sebastianavina]

tomorrow announcment: Amazon restricts number of "next page" presses per hour.

also: now words will be written with captcas

[benologist]

Summary of http://allthingsd.com/20130906/how-a-man-in-austria-used-leg...

[infocollector]

This might be also of interest to ebook lovers: https://register.blib.us (A Privacy friendly platform for accessing and searching your books from anywhere).

[theon144]

I have a dillema. You are, beyond any shadow of doubt, spamming the hell out of the service on HN.

On the other hand, the service does look pretty cool.

[advisedwang]

Pretty sure this is still circumventing an anti-piracy measure, so falls fowl of DMCA.

[lambada]

The person in question is in Austria, so as far as he's concerned a DMCA claim isn't worth the paper it's written on.

[atlantic]

fowl --> foul

[jessedhillon]

This must be why none of the new Kindles have page forward/backward buttons, despite their providing a decidedly superior experience to the awful touch UI.

Kidding (probably)