A University Professor rightfully appear at August way to BYPASS Amazon Kindle’s digital rights security with his laptop, the set of LEGOs, and the little ingenuity.
Vienna University of Technology Associate Professor Peter Purgathofer built to unscrew capable of automatically photographing the pages of an ebook and uploading them to the Internet using his MacBook’s built-in iSight camera and the LEGO Mindstorms robotics-based quits.
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whether holds the Kindle in front of the iSight camera and uses the automated Hammer to press the spacebar-Shutter button on the MacBook. Its next function automated presses the button on the Kindle to flip the paddles, Where the process repeats itself. After each picture is taken, the program on the computer could automatically upload it to the cloud text-recognition program and build the entire book in the plain text document.
Any Downloaderbook via Amazon Kindle could then be made freely accessible to anyone interested free of charge – after the little bit of time.
“It ended Being the reflection on the loss of the long-established rights When you buy the e-book,” Purgathofer said in the email to All Thing D. “You mark the copy of that book, but at eye-level, the jump that emerges is NOT the Stack of paper, buts Another e-book.”
“The owner isn’t even the owner anymore but RATHER the licensee of the book,” said Purgathofer.
Purgathofer states he hasn’t actually uploaded any pictures for fear of the legal implications, and that it was the private project unrelated to his academic work.
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