It took longer than I expected but the day has finally come: The Amazon Kindle has been hacked, its copyright protection scheme rendered inoperable. Application of the hack allows owners to transfer ebooks on their machine to any other device as a PDF file.

DRM has long divided opinion. While rights holders regard it as a crucial tool to protect copyright, consumers tend to hate it because it limits what can be done with content.

“DRM is not an effective way of preventing copying nor is it a good way of making sales. There isn’t a customer out there saying ‘what I need is an electronic book that does less,” novelist and co-editor of the Boing Boing blog Cory Doctorow told the BBC when the Kindle was launched.

As soon as a new DRM system is active, hackers begin to try and break it.

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Well that didn’t take long. Lest there was any doubt as to whether or not Sony’s PSP Go could be hacked to run homebrew, let the following video serve as evidence that yes, the PSP Go can and has been hacked. Expect major developments over the next few weeks that are sure to irritate the hell out of Sony.

From PSP World:

The same folks who finally cracked open the PSP-3000 hardware for custom firmware have done it again on the new device. But before you get too excited, the hackers of Team Typhoon have said that they do not plan to release this exploit to the public. This is either because they are afraid the power will be used for evil (piracy), or because the hack can be easily closed by Sony using an official firmware update.

Still, for an initial proof-of-concept, it is hard to deny that their work is impressive. In the video below, team Typhoon show off their hacked PSP Go, which is able to boot into a special kernel mode that allows homebrew software to run. They then boot and demonstrate the PicoDrive Sega CD emulator, and play around with Sonic. The video is definitely real, and we have no reason to doubt the claims of the group given their earlier success on the PSP 3000.