I went ahead and just cloned it to my personal Gittea and made it public
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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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 
Me too, mirrored to https://gogs.blitter.com/RLabs/DeGourou
There are literally multiple of us! We cannot be stopped!
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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
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.
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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
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
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 😄
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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
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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.
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yoinked and x-posted to mastodon
Someone upload this one to sourcehut. I'm really curious to see how Drew will response to DMCA like that
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.
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?
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