DRM removal tool was taken down from github. If you can, please download it from gitlab before its taken down too

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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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, 59140a147f
- 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
- 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
- It seems to be FLOSS without a company trying to sell premium features behind it.
  
  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.
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
  
  On the other hand, books from your local library have no drm. :)
- 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.
  
  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!
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  It sounds like you wrote a book for profit then, not for the benefit of others.
  
  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.
  
  @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.
  
  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.
  
  Sir this isn't a Wendys
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!
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.
- Don't group gitlab with github
- 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 🤔
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.
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
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 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.
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.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.
  
  pip install -r requirements.txt
  That's how you install everything a project needs ;)
- 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.
Codeberg please
- https://codeberg.org/berrysweet/DeGourou
yoinked and x-posted to mastodon
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.
Someone upload this one to sourcehut. I'm really curious to see how Drew will response to DMCA like that
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.exe
  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
Anyone have the binaries?
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.
Hi, i am the author of the tool. I just read all the comments after 6 months, i didn't know it was popular.
My original repo with new modifications is live on Gitea https://gitea.com/bipinkrish/DeGourou
you can visit there to get binaries or simply install through pip like

pip install git+https://gitea.com/bipinkrish/DeGourou.git
more reasons to self-host
Anyone got a copy?
- I cloned the repo into my gittea https://git.toad.city/brad/DeGourou
- Yes
Heads up, the GitLab is gone.
The user is blocked as well.
BACKUP ALL MIRRORS. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
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
- https://docs.ipfs.tech/how-to/host-git-repo/
  
  git clone --mirror https://gitlab.com/bipinkrish/DeGourou.git cd DeGourou.git git update-server-info mv objects/pack/*.pack . git unpack-objects < *.pack rm -f *.pack objects/pack/* ipfs add -r . [...] added QmZ35kE5S4gMub6hJRog8Nko6KYAqK9FWf1CnPJG91cYoW DeGourou.git # to publish with ipns, gen a key ipfs key gen DeGourou.git ipfs name publish --key=DeGourou.git $(ipfs add -Qr .) Published to k51qzi5uqu5dh9nncc56entb1nhzb6p86gwap2svciuouhioj4i6wnnfrb0jw3: /ipfs/QmZ35kE5S4gMub6hJRog8Nko6KYAqK9FWf1CnPJG91cYoW clone with: git clone http://k51qzi5uqu5dlsygylxnzdp2tfjymt88vnq5uqmcchhsc7uvrrq4o60n0q6o5d.ipns.localhost:8080/ DeGourou # or git clone http://QmZ35kE5S4gMub6hJRog8Nko6KYAqK9FWf1CnPJG91cYoW.ipfs.localhost:8080/ DeGourou # or - https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmZ35kE5S4gMub6hJRog8Nko6KYAqK9FWf1CnPJG91cYoW - https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipns/k51qzi5uqu5dlsygylxnzdp2tfjymt88vnq5uqmcchhsc7uvrrq4o60n0q6o5d # to pin ipfs pin add QmZ35kE5S4gMub6hJRog8Nko6KYAqK9FWf1CnPJG91cYoW