The DRM removal tool to remove DRM from ebooks was taken down from github and will most likely be taken down from gitlab soon as well. The more archives we have the better so im sharing the gitlab in hopes some Datahoarder types will archive it and keep it shared via torrents etc https://gitlab.com/bipinkrish/DeGourou
Heres an article about why it was taken down https://torrentfreak.com/internet-archive-targets-book-drm-removal-tool-with-dmca-takedown-230714/
Edit: does anyone here use https://radicle.xyz/ ? Its a p2p network built on top of git and could be a good way to host it while still being able to contribute to it besides making a .torrent for archiving
I went ahead and just cloned it to my personal Gittea and made it public
If you can, please update the readme download section since the releases button and git command still point to the old GitHub
Good call. I’ll try and do that but I am easily distracted so may end up disappointing you
Edit: Should be good now
Haha no worries
And thanks! Although it seems like the releases section is empty and the tags section doesn’t include any binaries
I clicked on some of the tags and got to binary downloads but yeah, I’ve never dealt with releases or compiled binaries via git myself so I have no idea how to make that better at this point
Me too, mirrored to https://gogs.blitter.com/RLabs/DeGourou
There are literally multiple of us! We cannot be stopped!
You’re the best
I do what I can when I can
Imagine buying books and not being able to do with them what you like
Because in circumstances like these and many many other digital stores your are not in fact buying the product, but a license to use the product in a very limited way.
btw sometimes drm is used to actually rent out digital books
Renting digital items is just stupid
Worthwile reading into: Hachette v. Internet Archive.
In short: Even lending only the amount of real copies that you own as digital copies (you own 1 real book, you get to lend 1 digital copy. Not more!) is too much for some greedy bastards and a compromise.
agree
On the other hand, books from your local library have no drm. :)
My local library is 25 miles away and only open 4 days a week, plus it’s about 40 miles away from the city where I do all my shopping so it is really out of the way. There is a different library in the city where I run my errands, but they charge a hefty fee for non-residents.
Imagine spending years writing a book for the benefit of others, only to have it downloaded, stripped of it’s licensing and given away to others for free and being robbed of compensation for the time you invested.
Those public libraries are ruining it for everybody!
Those public libraries pay to have those books on their shelves 🤦♂️
Do they pay every time someone checks out a book?
I recently listened to a decent podcast related to this very question (link)
Probably the wrong forum but I will say it’s… complicated. Physical books wear surprisingly fast, so popular books actually make money for publishers and authors, even by being in libraries.
I’m not of the opinion that DRM is good, but I do understand that writers have to make a living. But it’s the markets fault for not providing unobtrusive DRM or solving this economic problem in a way that doesn’t suck for end users.
I don’t know, that’s between them and the publisher.
I mean the original comment was about buying digital books. :)
Guess what? They pay for those too.
Imagine buying a book only to find out that you can’t read it anymore because the store you bought it from decided to remove it from sale and stop all downloads of it. You can’t restore it from a backup because the DRM prevents that.
It sounds like you wrote a book for profit then, not for the benefit of others.
Yes, most people do.
It sounds like you’d prefer a world where only well-off people spend the time writing books, since making money from writing is obviously not cool
I’d say every book was written for profit.
Then you’d be saying something that’s incorrect
Imagine going on the piracy Lemmy community and preaching the moral wrongs of copying.
Seriously though, DRM is a cancer. I usually pirate my books from LibGen, but I buy them on the Kobo store at the same time to support the author. It’s easy to strip DRM from Kobo and they’re better than Amazon, but I would really prefer not to support a store with DRM in the first place.
Can anyone recommend a DRM-less store? Something akin to GOG for books.
Imagine being so entitled that you think you have a right to others’ work for free.
Why do people join communities for things they hate just to shit on everyone? Are you addicted to being angry?
I didn’t join anything. It’s just at the top of my “all” feed.
I speak out because the sense of entitlement among people in this community is fucking insane.
Piracy is more often then not a symptom of the problem rather than a problem itself.
For example, game piracy was much more common prior to steam as it was just much much more convenient to pirate at that time.
Good luck with your moral crusade then Mr or Ms HughJanus
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English8•2 years ago
Imagine selling someone a book and then later clawing it back without a refund and without giving the victim a big fat warning that you’re going to do so.
God that would be awful. Good thing that’s not what we’re talking about.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English11•2 years ago
That’s what will likely happen when this company eventually goes out of business. The DRM server will go offline, and the books will be inaccessible. Cracks like this one are an insurance policy for that eventuality.
Unless the book is being bought directly from the writer, isn’t it really the publisher who is gaining the rewards? My understanding is that the writer is paid a lumpsum for rights of a book by a publisher.
If the entire motto is “benefit of others”, the writer themselves can publish it for the public to read openly, or make it a collaborative project where their and other people’s contributions are added together.
It’s not black and white, both sides of a piracy debate (much like anything else) have their arguments, and could have had reached a better medium.
@HughJanus
@cupcakezealot
this is not how compensation for writers works, generally, and also the whole idea is to break a traditional publishing system that exploits writers in favor of one where people directly pay the authors.-
Go on then, tell us how compensation works. Authors don’t get paid when they sell books, is that it?
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What’s preventing authors from selling directly?
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Sir this isn’t a Wendys
I also uploaded a copy to the Internet Archive lmao
I’d expect it to be removed soon, since it’s been done before
ı dont understand why people host things thats not aligned with corporate interests into GIthub, gitlab while Codeberg, GItea etc exits
Also self hosted GitLab, since it’s open source.
I’d rather not have to create an account on every individual’s instance to report bugs or contribute.
GitHub is low barrier to me - where I can easily contribute. Because I’m already there, actively. Everything else is medium to high barrier to contribute.
Don’t group gitlab with github
for visibility, also codeberg is quite hostile to piracy related tools and whatnot, gitea is quite small not many instances and it gets unwanted attention. if they self-host, that’s even more risky because domain names, hosting etc can get tracked down to the owner. decentralized solutions are the best for these kind of things
It seems like they made the same mistake as youtube-dl back in the day. If you develop a tool that can be used for piracy, do not straight up advertise that in your readme/documentation.
If you create a YouTube downloader, do not show it downloading music from major labels, use for a creative commons track for the demo instead.
And dont say in the short description of your repo that this tool is meant to steal books from an online lending library.
Thanks for the heads-up… The streisand effect in action :)
I made it into a torrent here is the magnet link.
The irony of using archive.org trackers for this 😄
Please seed
Migrated the repo to my own Gitea.
Dont forget to update the readme so the releases and git command points to your gitea instead of the github.
If you can could you make binaries? Seems like a lot of people are struggling with it and could help people make their archives more useable in the future
Is there a working drm removal tool for kindle books?
Yeah, use calibre and the drm removal plugin https://www.cloudwards.net/remove-drm-from-kindle-books/
Amazon changed some things at the beginning of the year, they made it very difficult to get the actual file in azw format. They only let you download kindle unlimited books in their secure kfx(?) format, which current DRM removal plugins are unable to process.
If you buy the book you can goto Content & Devices and download the book in azw3 format which can be processed by the DRM removal plugin.
From what I’ve read amazon is monitoring the sites where they’re developing kfx bypass mechanisms and are sealing up those holes before a public release can be made. Which is irritating because I just hate the Kindle app and prefer MoonReader
I’m pretty sure someone fully cracked kfx again - they just didn’t bother to make it work for kfx directly - the newest form of azw is just zipped kfx from what I understand
about 3 weeks ago the solution was merged to the current big active deDRM fork. Amazon seems to only respond when the new workaround percolates to the big easy to use front-ends like calibri
(And I don’t think the timeline for amazon sealing up the holes is actually all that fast. The original setup was being spread on some forums for several months now, and the january update from amazon was also quite “late”)
also there’s also several forms of downgrade attacks that mean only content released after amazon’s latest fix becomes uncrackable
I haven’t been able to get that to work for sometime, and you need a damn kindle ereader in the first place.
I’ve stopped buying my books from Amazon and am looking for somewhere else to purchase them.
Mine still works. I use the kindle for pc app, but it’s an old version. I think Amazon blocked it on newer versions.
Yep, that’s the issue. My old Voyage isn’t connect to my account anymore, so I can’t even use that method anymore. 😥
I kept a copy of the kindle installer that works. I can’t live without my de-drm.
😭 Keep it safe
Whoa, if this works it’ll greatly ease my saving of rare books… without having to reboot into Windoze to use the Adobe eBook crap and Calibre just to save an unencrypted version. Thanks!
Update: This is awesome. To get it working I had to install some python3 dependencies since I’d recently upgraded my box. If the main
DeGourou.pyscript isn’t running, try installing these:$ pip3 install lxml pycryptodome cryptography charset_normalizer
(EDIT: just read
requirements.txtit gives the above and some other dependencies. Duh.)Then download, while logged into archive.org, your borrowed book (download link should be “URLLink.acsm”; then run
$ python3 ./DeGourou.py -f /tmp/URLLink.acsm
… and the PDF with its proper filename will be saved into the curret directory.
I was going to recommend Knock as an alternative to Adobe Digital Editions that can be used from a command line in Linux but I just discovered it’s gone as well 😢
IIRC, Knock was basically a wrapper around this project.
Someone upload this one to sourcehut. I’m really curious to see how Drew will response to DMCA like that
- adroit balloon ( @adroidBalloon@lemmy.ml ) English7•2 years ago
yoinked and x-posted to mastodon
If I see any other clones show up I’ll add them to my private clone as remotes.
This way I can easily collate any updates they receive and, if they all start disappearing I’ll be able to re-publish it somewhere anonymously.
Hopefully that provides another tricky target for take-down whack-a-mole.
Already taken down. I tried to grab a copy but wasn’t fast enough.
still up for me on gitlab
Yeah. I tried to grab the binaries which are on GitHub of course.
weird still up for me, just cloned the repo locally.
I went to the releases page which links to GitHub. I will clone the repo instead.
Its still up when i go to the gitlab?
I am glad that others saved the source code elsewhere and kept it alive. How does deDRM_tools by noDRM avoid takedown due to piracy? I use that on a regular basis, and I am afraid that it might be taken down someday, and surprised that it is alive for so long. How has it stayed alive for so long?
Hasn’t ended up on someone’s radar from more luck than sense (no offence to the dev, of course) or they have worded the use case to sound enough steps away from piracy that it can’t be touched until they have some amount of proof of what it’s being used for.