Amazon Kindle Copyright Hacked: PDF Books Up for Grabs!

Tanya Hall is reporting for Gadjit that hackers successfully cracked the copyright protections of Kindle...

In the spirit of giving, hackers have claimed success in cracking copyright protections on Amazon’s Kindle eReader, allowing eBooks to be exported to other devices.



The eBooks will take the form of a pdf file, allowing it to be easily shared around the Kindle community and other file supporting devices.



Israeli hacker Labba is taking the kudos for this hack, after responding to a challenge on hacking forum: hacking.org.



US hacker i♥cabbages has also created a programme dubbed “Unswindle” (yes, rhymes with Kindle…) that converts books stored in the Kindle for PC app into a different file format for use elsewhere.



Kindle for PC allows customers to buy books to read on their PCs without having to purchase a Kindle reader.

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