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
Adding to the mirror list. Cloned it to my Codeberg and my private Forgejo instance.
I compressed the source into a
tar.gz. Here’s a link to that of the (at the time of writing) latest commit,59140a147fIf 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!
Doing gods work son, thank you
You’re the best
I do what I can when I can
Removed by mod
It seems to be FLOSS without a company trying to sell premium features behind it.
So it has no future…
I wouldn’t say that. It has been around for a while. Also, the Linux kernel itself is like that, there is no one selling Linux premium.
What’s grsecurity doing then?
Do you even know anything about Linux? It’s a multi billion dollar industry! Small projects which don’t have financial support will eventually stagnate and then die. It’s inevitable, because food is not free.
Every decent open source project should have a robust monetisation scheme.
Yeah man, Debian has no future. Food ain’t free, someone get them a robust monetisation scheme, a corporate sponsor! Otherwise they’ll stagnate. No idea how they managed to hold on for 30 years without any of that, the poor fellows. /s
I actually wrote two long ass responses to this but lemmy bugs caused both of them to be deleted before I could hit send. Good thing, actually, because I can summarize them in a paragraph.EDIT: well nvm, I ended up typing an equally long one all over again…Lichess, Stockfish, Tachiyomi, and in the world of Linux, Debian; all these are proudly open-source, proudly non-commercial, going nowhere any time soon, and no corporate daddy. To commercialize itself or seek a profit motive would be completely against lichess’ purpose, and it’s the darling of the chess community - not likely to disappear one fine day, is it now?
Sure, open-source projects can monetize and there’s nothing wrong with that - that’s down to the ethos of each individual project. But for so many of these projects, doing exactly what you’re suggesting would be completely antithetical to their culture and ethos, even their purpose of existing!
I’m just so tired of this “only corporations and self-interested motives will get us anywhere” attitude. It’s so fundamentally blind, so disrespectful to the ingenuity of the human spirit and its desire to strive for the common good. The fact is, many strong and robust projects which have contributed to the good of humankind and are more than just “decent” exist, for no other reason than someone simply wanting to write something cool, or make the world a better place. And they will continue on for a long time, for those same reasons.
I did not expect to read some nonsense that sounds like it came out of a 90’s era Microsoft executive’s mouth (complete with “food is not free”, my god) on lemmy. I expected to read it even less on the piracy community. Steve Ballmer, is that you?
I just finished reading a manga that was translated by random people from a certain anonymous cloverleaf website, for no other reason than they wanted to - not for money, not even to have their names attached to the damn thing, because they’re identified only as “anon”.
The view of the world put forth in this comment denies that what I just experienced is even possible, sticks its fingers in its ears and tries its best to ignore some of humanity’s best work (because acknowledging it would be fatal to the central hypothesis). All to insist that selfishness is the best way forward and that we need the powerful and mighty, the vagaries of money, to give us lemmings purpose in life. It is just such a profoundly sad, empty way of looking at life, I genuinely don’t know what to say…
I don’t know what Lichess is, but Debian has plenty of beefy sponsors, including Google and HP. Their monetisation strategy is sponsorship and it works. But they still have monetisation, that’s the thing.
TL;DR, this is the summarized version? lol
Not that I’m aware of. I set it up very very early in my self-hosting journey and have just continued using it ever since
As long as you’re self hosting, use whatever works best for you.
If you want to try out something new, spin up a container and give it a look.
I also uploaded a copy to the Internet Archive lmao
I’d expect it to be removed soon, since it’s been done before
My man!
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. :)
Ebooks from your local library generally do have drm in my experience. Harder to complain since they’re free though.
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.
Imagine buying a physical book, reading it, and putting it on the bookshelf in your living room, only to have family members and friends borrow it and read it for free.
I imagine your circle of family and friends is a lot smaller then posting it on the web and have people downloading it.
Yes because that’s totally the same as xeroxing someone else’s work and handing it out in the street to anyone who wants it, all day every day.
xeroxing
Lol
Dinosaur detected
As soon as they stop using DRM to force you into a specific ereader ecosystem, you’ll have an argument.
Until then, I’m going to strip the DRM off of a book I buy on Amazon and read it on my Nook. All other parties involved can fuck all the way off.
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.
E: weirdly enough, I happen to have just got a library card a couple days ago so I hopped on Libby and, sure enough, they have a finite number of copies of each book that you can “borrow”. So pretty much the same as renting them from the library without the pfaff.
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.
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
Yes, most people do.
What a very depressing view of human nature you have.
…so doing work and expecting to be compensated for said work is depressing to you? That is Olympic grade mental gymnastics.
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.
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.
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.
Running your own host is more work and costs money. And is harder to do anonymously.
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.
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
Decentralized git repos 🤔
so radicle.xyz?
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
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.
pip install -r requirements.txt
That’s how you install everything a project needs ;)
Thank you :) I didn’t realize it was literally a script to install requirements!
It’s not. It’s a list of packages that python, when it sees the list, knows to download whilst maintaining compatibility and prevent circular dependencies (if possible)
The calibre (Alf) dedrm tool can work on Linux if you have your ADE set up on wine or on a windows partition
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.
Codeberg please
yoinked and x-posted to mastodon
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/
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?
Does anyone have the binaries, please?
I would also like the binaries.
Not the same exact files but built a min ago for the latest commit. on ipfs:
added QmVKaUTiqF6dian3cb3PEFeKk67rzV2vVANd6oJXMDo3Ur DeGourou-linux added QmR8R2YeS4NDELvkA5bgGepnWCoGKiQ6KMvAsf1NmgcGmm DeGourou-macOS.bin added QmYHpgVCb8xmJgvGW6s3ctppYEchjT4VJtxmW83AbQwMM8 DeGourou-windows.exeNote that virtustotal didn’t like the windows one.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d22278fae1cd3c6f835a9ba34e2cf5cdae650b4c68fd18fa3d956eb3ea04b587 https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/8ceec084a3219725eb4cf498a82b9aead09762bf11c09ad99e867209a048b94f https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/fc00cacc91c313a51ecc3b3b6fc2d48166540cf0a90437370b726f6165faf2ff
Anyone have the binaries?
