cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35074590

Cross-posted from "iPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

From their about-page:

We make games last forever

A home for building and playing your curated game collection, GOG is a digital distribution platform that puts gamers first and respects their need to own games.

GOG.com is Part of Polish CD PROJEKT group.

Cross-posted from "GOG.com from Poland - DRM-free computer games" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

Cross-posted from "Liberate your Kindle books before leaving Amazon (Tutorial)" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

Hey there, I wanted to get away from Amazon Kindle but of course take all my ebooks with me, I paid for them after all. Unfortunately Amazon tries really hard to stop you from doing this by introducing new file formats, DRM and encryption, disabling functionality on their website and so on, making this endeavor quite a hassle, but I finally managed to liberate my books so I can use them with other ebook readers. There's a bunch of different tutorials for this out there, but I found each of them lacks one or two crucial points that prevent it from working, so I thought I'd write up a short tutorial with all the bits of information collected from all over the web and save you some frustration and time (took me a couple of hours to make this work).

I'm not sure if this is the best community to post this to, if you know a

This isn't a debate about the legality of the matter, but on whether it's ethical to DeDRM ebooks that you've checked out from a library. The publishing company and author are usually paid for each copy that you've lent, which is often why eBooks exhaust large parts of a library's budget. If you are able to loan a book for a month, but you DeDRM it and don't share it anyone else, and therefore instead finish it in two months, is this ethical? Or have you intentionally reduced the potential for more revenue to the author by instead not lending it twice? Do the publishers predatory licensing fees for libraries make this more ethical?

Cross-posted from "Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note'" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/24356878

Cross-posted from "YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

Comments on Ycombinator

Cross-posted from "Guide to Removing DRM From Amazon Kindle E-Books" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

This is a grey area for piracy since you need to own the ebook but... you also don't really "own" anything purchased in digital distribution and this is removing DRM from that. Suffice to say, if this were Nintendo they would try to sue you so it is probably more piracy than not.

Confirmed working as of a few minutes ago since I wanted to rebuild this with KVM.

Based on https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1c2ryfz/ and comments thereof.

1. Create a new virtual machine. I recently used KVM directly but also had success with Virtual Box.
2. Install Windows 10
3. Disable internet access for the VM.
4. Download and install Kindle 2.4.70904 (SHA256 2e2e4e5bb9fd585947244a4a62ce5baca47818c439d0213cc9a5a96f9a692119) from https://kindleforpc.s3.amazonaws.com/70904/KindleForPC-installer-2.4.70904.exe
5. Run

If rolled out widely, this would make web browsers and third-party YouTube clients without a DRM license unusable for YouTube playback, download, etc. This would include almost all open-source web browsers and almost all third-party YouTube clients. Archive link to reddit post about this

Archive link

Bookshop.org is apparently tackling Amazon in order to bring more profit to authors. Sounds great, right? Well, the issue is that the ebooks they sell are only available to be read in their app. They're not even available for downloading as LCP-protected ePubs able to be read in another LCP-supported reader. He really tries to avoid the questions asked by the journalist on the topic of DRM. Ironic how he then talks about allowing customers to own the eBook, while at the same time only allowing them to lease a license through his own store. See the following quotes:

What’s interesting about the music industry is that it got digitized first through Napster, which had no business model, and everyone was stealing everything. Then the iPod, and there was a fight over [digital rights management]. And Steve Jobs famously won the DRM fight with the iPod. And they said, “Just publish MP3s, DRM is never going to work,” and the music labels capitulated.

**Then we moved to Spotify and

Cross-posted from "Calibre subreddit succumbs to (probable) pressure and removes a thread discussing a fully legal way of bypassing an e-book DRM solution (LCP) created by a particularly litigious organization" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

Sorry for the long title. Some context to this: Readium LCP is a DRM-solution created and delivered by the non-profit foundation EDRLab (I guess we've learned by now that non-profit doesn't equal good), based in France.

EDRLab is an international, non-profit development laboratory working on the deployment of an open, interoperable and accessible digital publishing ecosystem worldwide.

In recent years they've gained a large market share in the EU first and foremost, providing both regular e-book shops in many EU countries and libraries with this DRM (if you're interested in some more technical information regarding this DRM solution, I'd recomm

This is a mirror from a reddit post. Archiving here for future reference. Credit goes to TexasNiteowl. I can't answer any questions regarding this.

Archive link to reddit post

2025 Guide for freeing books from Amazon

(from Feb. 27, 2025 after the download & transfer option was removed)

Some books may simply not work. There are publishers out there that have hardened DRM, which includes some textbooks particularly. I have no idea if comics/manga/graphic novels will work. But the following information will work for many ‘regular’ books.

Identifying your Options

• If you have a physical e-Ink kindle (not a Fire tablet) that is 3rd generation through 11th generation, you have 2 options: Wifi Delivery OR Kindle for PC.

• If you have a physical e-Ink kindle (not a Fire tablet) from the 2024 releases, there is some confusion or uncertainty as to whether Wifi Delivery will work based on whether Calibre can recognize your device and navigate

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38033968

Apparently many libraries, including the ones in my country, are moving over to a system where you're not allowed to digitally download the epub file anymore. You're only allowed to borrow the book, and read it, in a closed ecosystem: an app. This per definition then excludes the majority of e-ink readers that don't run Android. This is due to Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility requirements for products and services (Text with EEA relevance) (source) entering into force June 28 this year.

As the Adobe DRM solution hasn't been updated for years, it isn't capable of fulfilling all the requirements that this law lays out without endangering the DRM solution. Text-to-speech is one function that isn't fully supported by Adobe for example. This means that there

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40191472

Finally there are some more methods to tackle LCP DRM, but the messages to the creator from Readium consortium is so frustrating. Just read this:

"We were planning to now focus on new accessibility features on our open-source Thorium Reader, better access to annotations for blind users and an advanced reading mode for dyslexic people. Too bad; disturbances around LCP will force us to focus on a new round of security measures, ensuring the technology stays useful for ebook lending (stop reading after some time) and as a protection against oversharing."

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