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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. I'm The Clit Master! by grasshoppers · · Score: -1, Troll

    fuck jay and silent bob, fuck them in their stupid asses!

  2. very cool by Stanley+Feinbaum · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's extremely cool when someone VIOLATES the DMCA and could have potentially ruined their livelihood and end up in jail. Personally I don't understand how someone would be stupid enough to crack a program and release it non-anonymously. The way the laws are now, it's safer for someone to rape a 5-year-old boy and admit it then to crack a program.

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  3. Re:Copying e-books by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Try this version by Trevor Brown. It doesn't have any of those annoying restrictions.

  4. I claim this post for the C.L.I.T! by Trolling4Dollars · · Score: 0, Troll

    Log in.
    Jack off.
    Troll out.

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  5. Re:It is a good thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    > Of course, it doesn't help publishers to place restrictions on content, but we are speaking about reading ebooks, not preserving monopolies.

    Well how nice for you! Those very same publishers also collect the royalties for authors without which there would be nothing for you to read.

    There is no 'monopoly' here at all. You want to read something? Fine, go to HTML, PDF, hell go to paper. In this context, Microsoft are perfectly within their rights to code information how they want, you are not within your rights to break that code.