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And that’s why I only play Pokemon TCG. That, and the fact it’s far more affordable than other card games.

Brb signing up for a nursing home

If u hard, then u hard, and brother…

Same expression too, I assume?

The sale follows a judge’s order earlier this year for Jones to liquidate his personal assets, to help him to pay off the $1.4bn he was ordered to pay the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting…

I believe this money goes to the victims’ families

Very fun very cute game, I recently caught a Creature

Edit: NiceCatch!NiceCatch!NiceCatch!NiceCatch!NiceCatch!NiceCatch!

And you still get all the other stuff, so the only thing you have to give up is a lot of money

I’m not sure I follow

I might have done something wrong, but my banking apps never stopped working on LineageOS.

What are you an accessory to? Murder? On the dance floor?

I just bought a drone, hopefully it arrives by this weekend and I’ll start posting some pictures

Jolly good show!

Microsoft’s solution above is tacked-on and inelegant, it’s a bandaid to fix a problem with WMDRM that MTP devices were causing in the first place. MTP wasn’t built for enforcing DRM and and Amazon would just be setting themselves up to face the same issues if that was their goal here. Also, unlike Microsoft, they don’t have the advantage of being the original creators of MTP. If they did want a completely DRM controlled environment, turning the Kindle PC app into something more like iTunes where it’s the only program able to communicate with Kindles would have been a much better first step than implementing an industry standard file transfer protocol. They could have jumped straight to your second step like that.

My best guess as to why they’re making the switch to MTP is because USB Mass Storage currently requires them to maintain a separate partition with a fixed size formatted in NTFS on a Linux-based device just so it can occasionally be exposed to a PC it’s plugged into, and that’s… kinda stupid. MTP provides them the option to just not do all that. MTP is the standard mobile devices use these days, it’s going to be easier and cheaper for them to develop around and they won’t need two different file systems and partitions on one device anymore.

The Kindle doesn’t use Windows Media DRM for its DRM protected ebooks, they use Amazon’s own DRM. Even if they did use WMDRM though, this is just an extension for MTP that would enable it to be used for streaming WMDRM content. It “provides a mapping of WMDRM: Network Devices Protocol messages to the Media Transfer Protocol (MTP)” and that’s necessary because MTP would otherwise not provide the data necessary for for the DRM protected content to play.

There’s still nothing here that would prevent you from copying your own “legitimately obtained” epub files or Amazon-encrypted AZW files to or from your PC.

I do see this article was the first result when I searched “MTP DRM” on Google though 😉

They’re undead, not zombies. They might have been raised from the grave by like, a litch or something and not a zombie virus idk

https://theonion.com/opinion/cartoons/

Pretty minor as long as your computer’s OS supports MTP, which most do, except for MacOS. If you’re a Mac user, you’ll need 3rd party software like Calibre or Android File Transfer for it to show up, but if you’re the kind of person who’s transferring books to and from your Kindle over USB, you’re probably already using Calibre anyway.

In short, no.

What’s changed here is now the Kindle and PC will actively communicate with each other during file transfers with MTP instead of the Kindle “pretending” to be a USB flash drive with USB mass storage. There are some important trade-off that come with the switch to MTP but nothing that will stop you from transferring ebooks to or from a computer.

Yes, including EPUB files

Article is wrong about many things, seems poorly researched or the topic not fully understood by the author