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		mmastrac on Aug 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader is live This is just a simple LZ compression scheme with a per-book, static dictionary. It's trivial to decompress, although that exercise is left to the reader.

jrockway on Aug 10, 2011 [–]

Excellent. Why is Amazon suddenly going so easy on the DRM? Did they realize it's pointless? Is this a bug? That's what I'm curious about.

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