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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

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[–] [email protected] 166 points 1 year ago (26 children)
[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago

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, 59140a147f

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you can, please update the readme download section since the releases button and git command still point to the old GitHub

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Good call. I'll try and do that but I am easily distracted so may end up disappointing you

Edit: Should be good now

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha no worries

And thanks! Although it seems like the releases section is empty and the tags section doesn’t include any binaries

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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 Don't cry don't cry don't cry

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

There are literally multiple of us! We cannot be stopped!

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 year ago (45 children)

Imagine buying books and not being able to do with them what you like

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I also uploaded a copy to the Internet Archive lmao

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

I'd expect it to be removed soon, since it's been done before

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (5 children)

ı dont understand why people host things thats not aligned with corporate interests into GIthub, gitlab while Codeberg, GItea etc exits

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also self hosted GitLab, since it's open source.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Running your own host is more work and costs money. And is harder to do anonymously.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the heads-up.. The streisand effect in action :)

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I made it into a torrent here is the magnet link.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

The irony of using archive.org trackers for this 😄

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Migrated the repo to my own Gitea.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a working drm removal tool for kindle books?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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:

$ pip3 install lxml pycryptodome cryptography charset_normalizer

(EDIT: just read requirements.txt it 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

pip install -r requirements.txt

That's how you install everything a project needs ;)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The calibre (Alf) dedrm tool can work on Linux if you have your ADE set up on wine or on a windows partition

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

yoinked and x-posted to mastodon

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