This Lego Robot Kills The DRM Protection In Your Kindle E-Books - Business Insider

            

DRM, or digital rights management, is the stuff that limits a consumer’s capabilities with his or her purchased digital media. It’s what curbs the iTunes music you buy to your own use Ik. It Prevents you from sharing your paid-for Kindle books with others.

Peter Purgathoffer, an associate professor at the Vienna University of Technology, built a Lego robot That squashes Kindle ebook DRM, we learn via Boing Boing.

The robot works by Repeatedly pressing the “next page”

button on a Kindle, then snapping a picture of the new page with a laptop’s webcam. Captured pictures are saved to a folder where they are automatically treated with a process called OCR – Optical Character Recognition – which digitizes the text and turns it into a completely DRM-free e-book

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The best part of this little robotic creation is That Because it’s engaging in a transformative act (and is obviously for one’s own personal use), it’s legal.

DIY kindle scanner from peter Purgathofer on Vimeo

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