The Right to Read. By Richard Stallman Join our mailing list about the dangers of eBooks. This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2). From The Road To Tycho, a collection of articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian Revolution, published in Luna City in 2096. For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college—when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan. This put Dan in a dilemma. And there wasn't much chance that the SPA—the Software Protection Authority—would fail to catch him. Of course, Lissa did not necessarily intend to read his books.
Later on, Dan would learn there was a time when anyone could go to the library and read journal articles, and even books, without having to pay. There were ways, of course, to get around the SPA and Central Licensing. Lissa did not report Dan to the SPA. Author's Note. New Blog « Darkreverser’s Weblog. Continuing the Dark Reverser’s work… « Apprentice Alf's Blog. Last updated on 22nd March, 2013 This blog is intended to help anyone looking for free and simple software for removing DRM from their Kindle ebooks, stripping DRM from their Adobe Digital Editions ebooks, getting rid of DRM from their Barnes and Noble ebooks, freeing their Kobo ebooks of DRM, deleting the DRM from their Sony eBooks, or decrypting their Fictionwise eReader ebooks.
For Amazon Kindle DRM removal, Sony ePub DRM removal, Kobo DRM Removal, Adobe Digital Editions DRM removal, Barnes & Noble ePub DRM removal and eReader DRM removal, this is the place to be. Unlike most bloggers, I do not make many new posts on my blog. Instead, I edit existing posts to update them with the latest information. With my blog I’ve done my best to make the work of many people — most notably The Dark Reverser and i♥cabbages, but also Bart Simpson, CMBDTC, clarknova, mdlnx and no doubt a few others — easier to find and easier to use. Anti-Piracy Notice DeDRM Tools — Alf. Circumventing Kindle For PC DRM (updated) Amazon actually put a bit effort behind the DRM obfuscation in their Kindle for PC application (K4PC). The Kindle proper and Kindle for iPhone/iPod app both use a single "device" encryption key for all DRMed content. K4PC uses the same encryption algorithms, but ups the ante with a per-book session key for the actual en/decryption.
And they seem to have done a reasonable job on the obfuscation. Way to go Amazon! So here you go: unswindle v7 (previous versions: v6 v5 v4 v3). You'll also need a copy of darkreverser's mobidedrm (check the most recent comments for the newest links). Put those kids together (in the same directory) and run unswindle.pyw. Script name in honor of rms and The Right to Read. Updates. Update 2009-12-22. Fd386003520f7af7a15d77fcc2b859dd53e44bc1 KindleForPC-installer-20091217.exe13a816a3abf7a71e7b6a55228099b03b1dc3789b KindleForPC-installer-20091222.exe Update 2009-12-22 (2). About. Calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. Users say it’s outstanding and a must-have. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software. It’s also completely free and open source and great for both casual users and computer experts.
Save time on managing your e-book collection calibre’s user interface is designed to be as simple as possible. Large buttons in the main window take care of most of your needs. Celebrate over fifteen years of excellence with us and download calibre today! Calibre started life on 31 October, 2006, soon after the release of the SONY PRS-500, the first e-ink based reader to be sold commercially in the US. At the time there were no satisfactory tools to convert content into the LRF format, used by the SONY reader, so I decided to implement a converter to convert the most popular e-book formats to LRF. Kovid GoyalNovember 2009 Contributors of code/bug fixes In no particular order: Graphics and design Awards.