Reminder: Jerry Justianto submitted this from Indonesia. Heres in the States, serious legal questions exist about the ability of use of software to circumvent encryption, the reason I’ve deleted a link even though the DRM/DMCA is an outright attack on fair use. – DR
As you may have read on [deleted], a small 32K program has been floating around. It’s to Microsoft Reader what Russia’s Elcomsoft is to Adobe. It removes high-level Digital Rights Management from purchased e-books. So honest buyers can back up files easily and otherwise take advantage of fair use.
Based on informal research, I firmly believe that most buyers will not throw their e-books onto the Internet. I’ve never found legitimate non-DRM5 in the alt.binaries.e-book newsgroup; most of the illegal e-books there are scanned versions of printed books.
Meanwhile please don’t ask for a copy of the new program from me, since it is illegal to distribute the downconvert version. If you get it somewhere, use it wisely–just for your back-up amd other fair use. Show that honest buyers do not cheat.
Just so you’ll know, this program will:
1. Allow blind people to turn on the text-to-speech fuction in MS Reader.
2. Let you read your e-book on your old Pocket PC Reader 1.0.
3. Share the e-book with your family members using the same computer but different log-in names.
4. Let you copy reasonable amounts of text to quote in your own writings.
5. Reduce hassles from running out of your Microsoft activation quota. Hard-resetting your PocketPC is no longer a problem.
Read more technical stuff at Pocket PC eBooks Watch. – Jerry Justianto
