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Breaking Microsoft's e-Book Code
As reported in today's Wall Street Journal, Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation, reports that an anonymous programmer has found a way to decrypt Microsoft Reader e-books, adding fuel to the already hot digital rights debate.
The decryption program enables purchasers of "owner-exclusive" Microsoft Reader titles—Microsoft's most highly protected form of e-book—to convert these titles to unencrypted files viewable on any Web browser. The program's creator, a U.S. cryptography expert who asked not to be identified, says he wanted to circumvent the "two-persona" limit, a rule built into Microsoft Reader at the behest of publishers that allows purchasers to read the same e-book on up to two devices, but no more.
Such rules irritate many e-book readers, who feel that once they have purchased a book, they should be able to read it wherever they want. "I like to read e-books at my desk, when I'm traveling, lying on the sofa and when I'm eating lunch. I use different computers for these things, so I need more than two activations," says Roger Sperberg, a publishing consultant and a columnist for the industry site eBookWeb.
Wade Rush concluded his writing, "Until software makers and publishers can figure out how to protect their e-books without treating all readers like thieves, in other words, the summer of beach-blanket e-books may never materialize."
One Answer, "Follow PeanutPress' protection system!
Other Articles that discuss this: Yahoo, ZDNet, Planet eBook and from ebookweb.

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