Get the latest tech news

Amazon Is Closing a Kindle Loophole That Makes It Easy To Remove DRM


Amazon is removing the "Download & Transfer via USB" feature for Kindle e-books starting February 26th, closing a loophole that allowed users to download older, easily crackable DRM formats. "At the very least, you'll still be able to transfer your e-books over Wi-Fi, and of course, transferri...

Amazon is removing the " Download & Transfer via USB" feature for Kindle e-books starting February 26th, closing a loophole that allowed users to download older, easily crackable DRM formats. "At the very least, you'll still be able to transfer your e-books over Wi-Fi, and of course, transferring your e-books through Calibre will still work, too," notes Android Police. "[S]o it's not like we are losing access to dragging and dropping files onto a Kindle, we are simply losing access to a tool that facilitated easy piracy by pushing older formats of retail books from the website to your Kindle over USB."

Get the Android app

Or read this on Slashdot

Read more on:

Photo of Amazon

Amazon

Photo of DRM

DRM

Photo of kindle loophole

kindle loophole

Related news:

News photo

whoAMI attacks give hackers code execution on Amazon EC2 instances

News photo

Amazon ends kindle ebooks "Download and Transfer via USB"

News photo

Walmart unleashes epic Presidents Day sale to compete with Amazon and Best Buy — see the best tech deals from $17