Breaking Google's DRM

An anonymous reader writes "Google's new Google Print service (that lets you see scanned pages from printed books) has a pile of advanced browser-disabling DRM in it ('Pages displaying your content have print, cut, copy, and save functionality disabled in order to protect your content.'). This works with JavaScript turned off, even in Free Software browsers. Seth Schoen has posted preliminary notes on some breaks to the DRM (beyond just automating a screenshotting process), including a proposal for a circumventing proxy that would fetch Google Print pages and strip out the DRM. A full exploration of the html obfuscation and DRM employed by Google would be very interesting; certainly the ability for a remote attacker to disable critical browser features like save, right-click, copy and cut against the user's wishes is a major security vulnerability in Moz/Firefox and should be fixed ASAP."

Comments

here we go again.

[bLindmOnkey]

and so begins a new age of literature piracy

Re:here we go again.

[dykofone]

And I say let the revolution begin!

The BPAA (Book Publishers Association of America) has destroyed literature by stifling innovation and branding it's own pop authors that it force feeds to the masses. Why, I can't go outside without being forced to read the latest chart topper.

And really, why should I be forced to pay $20 for a whole book when only a few chapters in it are any good, and I could just download those from google or have a friend make me a copy.

Just get it from your cache!

[nagora]

Works for me on Opera 7.54. DUH!

TWW

Re:That explains those mysterious hirings

[Gentoo Fan]

Google is not god.

Correct, Google is much more useful.

Oooo! I know!

[hartba]

Just put your monitor on a copy machine!

Re:That explains those mysterious hirings

[Sqwubbsy]

Google is not god.

Blasphemer!

Re:It's doomed.

[Naikrovek]

why do they not simply create an HTML table, make it [image width] cells wide, and [image height] rows, insert a 1x1 clear gif in each cell and change the bgcolor of each cell to the color on the corresponding image?

while they work on that i'm gonna upgrade my memory.

Re:That explains those mysterious hirings

[Anonymous Coward]

your geek license hath been revoked.

Re:Getting stuff for free?

[Anonymous Luddite]

If someone's only business model is to put some crap on a website, charge a bunch of money for access, and hope to sit back and watch the cash roll in, I think they will be in for a rude wakeup call.

You're absolutely right.

If that worked, the internet would be full of pornography in a heartbeat.

Oh. Wait a minu.. ..nevermind

Re:wget is forbidden

[AndroidCat]

Come on, wget is for wuzzes! Real haxors just telnet to port 80 to ask for the page! ;)