dmoynihan writes "I guess we can talk about this now, though some people have been posting on the matter for a while.
Microsoft's theoretically ultra-secure, DRM-5 sealed format for ebooks has been decrypted.
You might remember that Adobe's researchers plumbed the depths of the net for months trying to find any freely circulating books that had been hacked using Elcomsoft's Advanced Ebook Processor, to no avail. Interesting fair use argument could be made here: when Reader was first launched, people bought Jornadas and such to use it, only to be told later that the required updates to their software would not be offered. So do those people who bought an early Jornada/Ipaq, with the expectation of using the device to read ebooks, have the right to decrypt a commercial ebook and place it on their PDA?
And what about those of us who are using the file extractor to get a look at Microsoft Reader ebooks we create with one file converter or another? "