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Microsoft Reader Format Cracked

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the countdown-to-arrest-started dept.

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."

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  1. The Name by richie2000 · · Score: 5, Funny
    I guess it won't be long before free software activists and feminists around the world will join in the battle cry: Free clit!

    Seriously, Microsoft will go after him, just like Adobe tried with Dmitri.

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    Money for nothing, pix for free
  2. That's great... by jez9999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... 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!

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    == Jez ==
    Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
  3. Microsoft's response by Alsee · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
  4. another MS acronym by sarcast · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Re:Familiar by phutureboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Democracy is two wolves and a lamb, voting on what to have for lunch.