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
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
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
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.
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
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
Are there any advantages to Gittea? I’ve been a bit out of the loop since I only ever use Gitlab (personal) and Github (professional) for everything. I did used to use Bitbucket for a while when I was into Mercurial but got fed up with it.
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.
I totally agree with this. And I think it actually shows a lot about people in general, and their attitude to life.
I totally understand how can someone arrive at a conclusion that unless you can monetize or fund something, it will eventually get nowhere. But that also says a lot about the person saying that, and unfortunately is pretty common - that just a mere though of doing something for free, or for others without any compensation is basically unimaginable, and people like that will never get it.
But then you have passionate people doing volunteers for free, or creating entire events for a subculture they love while at a loss or without any kind of compensation for their (large amounts) of time and work. I’m a part of few such projects, mostly as a DJ, and I always find it really weird and surprising when I’m reading though posts or comments related to DJing where hourly rate or how much should they ask for a first gig is such a common topic. It never crossed my mind, and the communities I’m helping with are all run by volunteers without any compensation, just because they are passionate for their subculture.
Because even if you’re working a day job, there is still a lot of free time left for you to offer into something you really care about. It’s understandable that some people don’t want to offer it to others for free (or can’t even imagine how someone would be willing to do that, and probably even think that they are stupid to do so), but I’m really glad that some people are willing to do that - and that’s what the FOSS community is about.
It’s always saddening when I hear someone say “You could be making so much money for that! Just monetize it a little…”, but it’s also a really good judge of character. People are people, I guess.
Thanks for taking the effort of writing out what I think.
This all-pervasive thinking that if a company employs some people to work on some community FLOSS project then we should all accept that that project would never had gotten anywhere if not for the almighty capital is so stupid. Especially since if it’s the reverse, like look at when Bethesda games only being a thing at this point because of its modders, but the company owns the IP so we should all thank the company.
If the community owns the IP and some companies contribute the barest minimum or even just donate to the project, boom, it’s a capitalist commercial success since they “bankrolled” the project.
If it’s the other way around, a company puts out some mediocre software (seriously Beth, metro cars as hats?) and the community makes it something magnificent, then again, the achievement is the corporation’s, since they own the IP, right?
Most of human achievement was either independent of, predating, or even achieved in the spite of capitalist corporations. They are a tool, not the almighty saviour.
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 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.
Ipfs has been around for like 7(?) Years and its still way too complicated for the average person. They made so many millions yet still can’t get apps with simple interfaces its quite astonishing
Provably not the best idea to give developers millions and millions of dollars for an idea they don’t really care about with an almost non existent userbase since they have zero incentive to continue improving it or making it useable
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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:
Note 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
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?
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
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.
more reasons to self-host
Codeberg please
https://codeberg.org/berrysweet/DeGourou
Heads up, the GitLab is gone.
The user is blocked as well.
BACKUP ALL MIRRORS. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
ı dont understand why people host things thats not aligned with corporate interests into GIthub, gitlab while Codeberg, GItea etc exits
Don’t group gitlab with github
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.
Running your own host is more work and costs money. And is harder to do anonymously.
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?
I went ahead and just cloned it to my personal Gittea and made it public
Me too, mirrored to https://gogs.blitter.com/RLabs/DeGourou
There are literally multiple of us! We cannot be stopped!
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
Are there any advantages to Gittea? I’ve been a bit out of the loop since I only ever use Gitlab (personal) and Github (professional) for everything. I did used to use Bitbucket for a while when I was into Mercurial but got fed up with it.
Does Gittea offer anything different or special?
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?
They don’t pay the original Linux kernel devs that’s for sure.
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…
Amen!
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
I totally agree with this. And I think it actually shows a lot about people in general, and their attitude to life.
I totally understand how can someone arrive at a conclusion that unless you can monetize or fund something, it will eventually get nowhere. But that also says a lot about the person saying that, and unfortunately is pretty common - that just a mere though of doing something for free, or for others without any compensation is basically unimaginable, and people like that will never get it.
But then you have passionate people doing volunteers for free, or creating entire events for a subculture they love while at a loss or without any kind of compensation for their (large amounts) of time and work. I’m a part of few such projects, mostly as a DJ, and I always find it really weird and surprising when I’m reading though posts or comments related to DJing where hourly rate or how much should they ask for a first gig is such a common topic. It never crossed my mind, and the communities I’m helping with are all run by volunteers without any compensation, just because they are passionate for their subculture.
Because even if you’re working a day job, there is still a lot of free time left for you to offer into something you really care about. It’s understandable that some people don’t want to offer it to others for free (or can’t even imagine how someone would be willing to do that, and probably even think that they are stupid to do so), but I’m really glad that some people are willing to do that - and that’s what the FOSS community is about.
It’s always saddening when I hear someone say “You could be making so much money for that! Just monetize it a little…”, but it’s also a really good judge of character. People are people, I guess.
Thanks for taking the effort of writing out what I think.
This all-pervasive thinking that if a company employs some people to work on some community FLOSS project then we should all accept that that project would never had gotten anywhere if not for the almighty capital is so stupid. Especially since if it’s the reverse, like look at when Bethesda games only being a thing at this point because of its modders, but the company owns the IP so we should all thank the company.
If the community owns the IP and some companies contribute the barest minimum or even just donate to the project, boom, it’s a capitalist commercial success since they “bankrolled” the project.
If it’s the other way around, a company puts out some mediocre software (seriously Beth, metro cars as hats?) and the community makes it something magnificent, then again, the achievement is the corporation’s, since they own the IP, right?
Most of human achievement was either independent of, predating, or even achieved in the spite of capitalist corporations. They are a tool, not the almighty saviour.
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.
You’re the best
I do what I can when I can
Doing gods work son, thank you
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/
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
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 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.
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.
Why not ipfs?
Ipfs has been around for like 7(?) Years and its still way too complicated for the average person. They made so many millions yet still can’t get apps with simple interfaces its quite astonishing
It seems they only care about nfts and shit-coins.
Yes it’s not easy . Sometimes I don’t even know how lol
Downloading from web gateways is easy but no idea how to publish my own shit. They failed
Provably not the best idea to give developers millions and millions of dollars for an idea they don’t really care about with an almost non existent userbase since they have zero incentive to continue improving it or making it useable
https://docs.ipfs.tech/how-to/host-git-repo/
Anyone have the binaries?
yoinked and x-posted to mastodon