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
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.
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.
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 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.
@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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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 😢
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.py script isn’t running, try installing these:
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)
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.
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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Imagine buying books and not being able to do with them what you like
btw sometimes drm is used to actually rent out digital books
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.
Ebooks from your local library generally do have drm in my experience. Harder to complain since they’re free though.
Renting digital items is just stupid
agree
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.
https://www.eff.org/cases/hachette-v-internet-archive
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 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.
@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?
What’s preventing authors from selling directly?
Those public libraries are ruining it for everybody!
Those public libraries pay to have those books on their shelves 🤦♂️
I mean the original comment was about buying digital books. :)
Guess what? They pay for those too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good luck with your moral crusade then Mr or Ms HughJanus
@HughJanus @snowbell
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.
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.
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.
Lol
Dinosaur detected
Lmao
I imagine your circle of family and friends is a lot smaller then posting it on the web and have people downloading it.
Sir this isn’t a Wendys
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.
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.
In what meaningful way is this different?
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.
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.
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
more reasons to self-host
Thanks for the heads-up… The streisand effect in action :)
I went ahead and just cloned it to my personal Gittea and made it public
You’re the best
I do what I can when I can
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?
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
TL;DR, this is the summarized version? lol
What’s grsecurity doing then?
They don’t pay the original Linux kernel devs that’s for sure.
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,59140a147fMe too, mirrored to https://gogs.blitter.com/RLabs/DeGourou
There are literally multiple of us! We cannot be stopped!
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
Doing gods work son, thank you
Already taken down. I tried to grab a copy but wasn’t fast enough.
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.
still up for me on gitlab
Yeah. I tried to grab the binaries which are on GitHub of course.
Its still up when i go to the gitlab?
yoinked and x-posted to mastodon
Anyone have the binaries?
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!
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 😢
https://github.com/BentonEdmondson/knock
IIRC, Knock was basically a wrapper around this project.
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)
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 made it into a torrent here is the magnet link.
Please seed
The irony of using archive.org trackers for this 😄
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
Yes it’s not easy . Sometimes I don’t even know how lol
It seems they only care about nfts and shit-coins.
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/
Someone upload this one to sourcehut. I’m really curious to see how Drew will response to DMCA like that
Anyone got a copy?
Yes
I cloned the repo into my gittea https://git.toad.city/brad/DeGourou
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