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
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
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 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.
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:
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)
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 😢
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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I also uploaded a copy to the Internet Archive lmao
My man!
I’d expect it to be removed soon, since it’s been done before
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
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
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.
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.
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 😢
https://github.com/BentonEdmondson/knock
IIRC, Knock was basically a wrapper around this project.
more reasons to self-host
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.
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
Yes it’s not easy . Sometimes I don’t even know how lol
https://docs.ipfs.tech/how-to/host-git-repo/
yoinked and x-posted to mastodon
Thanks for the heads-up… The streisand effect in action :)
Anyone got a copy?
I cloned the repo into my gittea https://git.toad.city/brad/DeGourou
Yes
I made it into a torrent here is the magnet link.
Please seed
The irony of using archive.org trackers for this 😄
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?