The Amazon Kindle War Against Piracy

https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/the-amazon-kindle-war-against-piracy

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Comments

spwa4•1h ago

Luckily one thing LLMs with image input are ridiculously good at is piracy. You want to get a book off a kindle? Easier than with a real book, easily.

What amazon could block is getting books from other sources onto a kindle. But there's plenty of devices. I use an iPad.

duskwuff•30m ago

An LLM? Just what I always wanted - an OCR tool that hallucinates.

GardenLetter27•48m ago

At least e-Ink screens are becoming cheaper and better so there'll be plenty of alternatives if they block side-loading.

pasc1878•36m ago

I don't see any incentive for Amazon to do that. Even if you do not buy any books from Amazon you still paid them for the Kindle. And if you have a Kindle you might buy the odd book from them.

Also the Kindle is marketed as allowing you to put your own documents on it.

Yes Amazon want to stop you reading books licensed from then on anything but a Kindle but not the other way around.

NoboruWataya•8m ago

As I understand it they don't make much money from the sale of the Kindle itself as they want to lock you into their ebook ecosystem which is where they make their money. I don't have hard figures though.

They may market it like that now, but that can change. If Google can stop you sideloading apps on Android, I have no doubt Amazon could try to stop you sideloading books on your Kindle.

miohtama•21m ago

I switched from Kindle to Boox. Boox eink tablet can still run Kindle the Android app, but overall it is much better device.

charcircuit•34m ago

>Draconian measures are being taken to prevent Kindle books from being downloaded

Using keys stored in hardware for DRM is industry standard. It's not draconian.

azalemeth•31m ago

I have never bought a system that requires DRM. It may be a standard amongst those who use DRM, but DRM itself is far from universal.

xethos•59s ago

Presuming it is industry-standard (not my industry, so I'm not about to concede the point), that doesn't make it less draconian.

buyucu•19m ago

I just use libgen / Anna's Archive. No need to pay money to Amazon.

ugjka•8m ago

So how exactly pirating the books give money to the writers?

elcapitan•13m ago

The simple message is "Don't spend your money on things you don't really own, because you'll be at forever war with the lenders".

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