Breaking Google's DRM 892
An anonymous reader writes "Google's new Google Print service (that lets you see scanned pages from printed books) has a pile of advanced browser-disabling DRM in it ('Pages displaying your content have print, cut, copy, and save functionality disabled in order to protect your content.'). This works with JavaScript turned off, even in Free Software browsers. Seth Schoen has posted preliminary notes on some breaks to the DRM (beyond just automating a screenshotting process), including a proposal for a circumventing proxy that would fetch Google Print pages and strip out the DRM. A full exploration of the html obfuscation and DRM employed by Google would be very interesting; certainly the ability for a remote attacker to disable critical browser features like save, right-click, copy and cut against the user's wishes is a major security vulnerability in Moz/Firefox and should be fixed ASAP."
My wishes??? (Score:2, Funny)
IE (and windows for that matter) have been doing things that are against my wishes for years. I guess this is a cross-platform issue.
here we go again. (Score:4, Funny)
Just get it from your cache! (Score:5, Funny)
TWW
Re:That explains those mysterious hirings (Score:5, Funny)
Correct, Google is much more useful.
Oooo! I know! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That explains those mysterious hirings (Score:5, Funny)
Blasphemer!
Re:It's doomed. (Score:5, Funny)
while they work on that i'm gonna upgrade my memory.
Re:here we go again. (Score:5, Funny)
The BPAA (Book Publishers Association of America) has destroyed literature by stifling innovation and branding it's own pop authors that it force feeds to the masses. Why, I can't go outside without being forced to read the latest chart topper.
And really, why should I be forced to pay $20 for a whole book when only a few chapters in it are any good, and I could just download those from google or have a friend make me a copy.
Countdown (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That explains those mysterious hirings (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Getting stuff for free? (Score:5, Funny)
If someone's only business model is to put some crap on a website, charge a bunch of money for access, and hope to sit back and watch the cash roll in, I think they will be in for a rude wakeup call.
You're absolutely right.
If that worked, the internet would be full of pornography in a heartbeat.
Oh. Wait a minu..
Re:That explains those mysterious hirings (Score:2, Funny)
Re:wget is forbidden (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well, they're a public company now ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That explains those mysterious hirings (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That explains those mysterious hirings (Score:2, Funny)
Re:We control the horizontal, we control the verti (Score:2, Funny)
Given that gizmos tend to be small, I think a simple brick would be sufficient to turn them off
In case you don't like such drastic solutions I am yet to see an electronic gizmo that functions without any of its batteries...
No it doesn't. (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, it is. This is very basic javascript sort of stuff and it is commonly seen used by 12-year olds on crappy geocities pages so that right-clicking to "save as" pops up an "OMG DONT STEAL MY PICTURES OF EMINEM!!!" error box.