Santa brought me the Model Railroader 75-year Collection on DVD which was released in November. It works fine on my laptop, as I expexted from all the pre and post release comments, but I would like to put some of the issues on my Ipad which is easier to hold and read and which I can bring to my workshop more easily. I understand that the DVD is “locked” from downloading to a tablet but I’m curious if some of the smart, PC-savvy forum readers if figured out a way around this.
It is not locked, the individual files are encrypted so they only work with the reader that is installed on your computer.
The main reason they don’t support tablets, etc., is the sheer size of the archive. You need about 21G just for the files, which would consume a lot of memory on the average tablet. In a few years when 128G is considered the smallest memory size on a tablet, that might change. The flip side is how do you package it, and how many people want to download a huge application with all the files included?
Meanwhile, you are going to have to use a full computer. Asking on a public forum how to get around copy protection is not a good idea either. In some countries, breaking the copy protection could have serious legal implications too, so don’t expect anyone to come out and tell you how to do this.
I’m a bit annoyed that htey locked the PDFs with a user password, otherwise they would read fine on my tablet. Size is not an issue, and is not THE issue here, DRM is the issue here. OK, no one’s tablet could load ALL 75 years into it at one time - but a year or two would easily fit on any 16 or 32GB tablet. Most any tablet can display PDF files as well, with no problems. There are TWO possible passwords in PDF files - one keeps you from opening the file at all (what Kalmbach did) and one simply prohibts you from altering or printing it, or doign a save as, or whatever. This is wht they should have done, so it could be read but not altered.