If you thought you had seen it all in the world of eReaders and eBooks, get ready to enjoy a almost unimaginable experiment in which the Austrian university professor Peter Purgathofer has devised a mechanism with pieces from the famous LEGO game to be able to hack a digital book in a very simple way kept in a Amazon Kindle device.
This experiment does not seek to carry out an illicit business and that in Spain is a crime, but in the author's own words, it seeks to highlight the loss of rights suffered by the owner of a book once he buys it for the Amazon eReader .
The experiment that you can see in the video that heads this article is very simple but at the same time ingenious and it is that thanks to the LEGO pieces the university professor has managed to assemble a little robot that lets you press the Kindle's page-down function and press the space bar on a Mac which thereby activates the camera through Photo Booth.
From there, the images are sent to a data recognition software and we could already have our own eBook in a new electronic format that we could print or, for example, upload to the private cloud.
Honestly, perhaps the rights of the owner of a digital book are greatly reduced but few people in the world are going to carry out actions of this type that violate that property but without a doubt as a curiosity it is acceptable and interesting.
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Source - allthingsd.com/20130906
The truth is that as a method it is somewhat crude. Taking photos of the Kindle and passing them through an OCR, when there are a thousand methods to remove the Amazon DRM and have a perfect copy, it is as if to copy a file we copied the bits to pen and then entered them in the notepad.
But hey, I suppose that grace is the subject of the layman and so on. It would make more sense if we talked about books on paper, where in fact there are already similar devices that are responsible for turning the page and automating the photo.