An interesting way to legally bypass DRM on Amazon Kindle with Lego
Peter Purgathofer ( Peter Purgathofer ), associate professor at the Vienna University of Technology, expressed his protest against DRM and similar restrictions in the most natural way for the geek - using the loophole in the user agreement, he managed to use it and got a legal text from his Kindle reader using a simple mechanism , not burdened with any imposed restrictions.
The idea is very simple and is shown in the video below: the reader is located on the stand assembled from Lego, installed in front of the laptop's webcam. In addition to its direct purpose, the stand is able to press the scroll button on the Kindle and press the space bar on the keyboard, thanks to which the webcam takes a screen shot of the reader and loads it onto the cloudy OCR service. The recognized text is carefully collected in files that are legally completely honest before the law.
Of course, for Peter in general, it was not a problem to use numerous means of circumventing the DRM protection, but in this case the question of respecting the legality of the process was a matter of principle. Finding the fact that photographing the screen and translating the image into text is not prohibited, it was only a matter of technique to implement this “legitimate” method of circumventing the protection.
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Peter himself does not attach any serious significance to his work and treats it rather as a way to express a negative attitude towards restricting the rights of the owner of digital files with DRM.
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The idea is very simple and is shown in the video below: the reader is located on the stand assembled from Lego, installed in front of the laptop's webcam. In addition to its direct purpose, the stand is able to press the scroll button on the Kindle and press the space bar on the keyboard, thanks to which the webcam takes a screen shot of the reader and loads it onto the cloudy OCR service. The recognized text is carefully collected in files that are legally completely honest before the law.
Of course, for Peter in general, it was not a problem to use numerous means of circumventing the DRM protection, but in this case the question of respecting the legality of the process was a matter of principle. Finding the fact that photographing the screen and translating the image into text is not prohibited, it was only a matter of technique to implement this “legitimate” method of circumventing the protection.
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Peter himself does not attach any serious significance to his work and treats it rather as a way to express a negative attitude towards restricting the rights of the owner of digital files with DRM.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/193108/
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