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Microsoft Reader Format Cracked
Anonymous Coward writes "Pocket PC Addict has a cool story about how some guy named Dan Jackson is distributing an unfortunately named program that will remove the security from Microsoft Reader ebooks. Once the security is removed, it then allows the book to be converted to html, text or any other format."
Seriously, Microsoft will go after him, just like Adobe tried with Dmitri.
Money for nothing, pix for free
Heheheh... You have to admit... the names they came up for their programs have a much more memorable, ummm.... ring to them than, say, DeCSS.
(Insert joke about "rolling off the tongue" here)
Obligatory quote(s) from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jay: I am the CLIT Commander! I AM THE CLIT CAMANDER!! WHEREVER YOU SEE A CLIT YOULL SEE THIS FACE! I am master of the CLIT!
Willenholly: We don't want to rub the C.L.I.T. the wrong way!
Willenholly: The C.L.I.T. is an offshoot of the L.A.B.I.A.
Reg Hartner: Oh, you mean the Liberate Apes Before Imprisoning Apes movement?
... because I just finished on a program I've been making. Transform Watermark, or "Twat.exe", will allow you to unencode watermarked e-books in addition to this!
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
Microsoft has promptedly responded to this breach of DRM5 security. That have released their new DRM6 format which contains the DRM5 file with the addition of a "Broadcast Flag" bit. When this bit is set to 1 the DRM5 security may not be copied or extracted. When the bit is set to zero you may freely copy or extract the DRM5 data.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
MS doesn't seem to have the best QA department when it comes to names. I remember for that the longest time, what is now called "Automatic Updates" used to be called the critical update notification tool. I'll leave it to the reader to figure out the acronym.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb, voting on what to have for lunch.
But remember, unless sufficiently drunk, stay away from gnome-clit.
Just practicing...
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
Now thousands of geeks can finally say they've come in contact with a clit. Ya gotta figure it's about as close as most will ever get....