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Glassbook Reader Paranoia

Posted by michael on from the don't-circumvent-that-floppy dept.

Linh Ngo writes "To follow-up on your recent Stephen King electronic book, you might be interested in a story I wrote at open content.net which brings to light the absurd copy protection that Glassbook Reader uses. In short, you must call customer support if you change your hard-disk or upgrade your cpu, and copying the book from one computer to another is a no-no. The built-in copy protection renders your ebook useless. This is son of DIVX all over again. "

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  1. And privacy concerns? by zlexiss · · Score: 2

    I haven't downloaded the reader, but couldn't find anything on the website about whether or not the reader is sending any personal or other info back to glassbook. Anyone see anything on this?

    zlexiss

  2. No Debugger? by DaveHowe · · Score: 2

    On the other hand, CyberPatrol were sure you couldn't reach their encrypted files either. I suspect a few people will be playing with the code in a suitable environment already....
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