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Amazon thanks loyal Kindle devotees by bricking their kit (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 days ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] AAA@feddit.org 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I suspect the real reason is those older Kindles allowed to remove the DRM from any media loaded onto them via Amazon. Because the decryption key is the serial number written on the back of the device.

If those devices are not supported anymore, they don't need to issue these easily breakable DRM protected ebooks anymore.

My apology if someone else wrote this before, or it's been mentioned somewhere already. Didn't read everything so far.

[–] lankydryness@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Interesting, I didn’t know that!