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Adobe's ADEPT DRM Broken

Posted by timothy on from the it-was-just-all-caps dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I love cabbages has reverse-engineered Adobe's ADEPT DRM (e-book protection). On February 18, I love cabbages released code that decrypts EPUB e-books protected with ADEPT and followed that up on February 25, with code that decrypts PDF e-books protected with ADEPT. On March 4, I love cabbages was given a DMCA take down notice. And there's plenty of evidence he got it right. DS:TNG (Dmitry Sklyarov: The Next Generation)?"

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  1. Re:Hey, why not just steal GPL code? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Copyright law" does not equal "technological enforcement of whatever terms somebody feels like enforcing".

    While some DRM-crackers are indeed, more or less unrelated(you don't see GPL proponents celebrating the availability of cracked copies of proprietary software), the DRM-crackers who stand up for our freedom to own and control our computers, rather than the other way around, have pretty much exactly the same objective as core GPL proponents.