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A community for the discussion of topics surrounding DRM, Digital Rights Management.

All media that DRM can be applied on can be discussed here, for example books, movies, music or games.

Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures, such as access control technologies, can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. DRM technologies govern the use, modification and distribution of copyrighted works (e.g. software, multimedia content) and of systems that enforce these policies within devices. DRM technologies include licensing agreements and encryption.

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Guides and useful tools

Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android

2025 Guide for freeing books from Amazon (after D&T was removed)

Guide to Removing DRM From Amazon Kindle E-Books

Liberate your Kindle books before leaving Amazon (Tutorial)

How to setup Calibre to remove DRM from ebooks on Linux/Archive mirror

Guide on removing DRM from Kobo & Kindle eBooks (reddit mirror, Archive link)

Extracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub

DeDRM tools for eBooks: a plugin for Calibre for removing Adobe DRM, Obok etc.

Calibre eBook Management

Miscellaneous links

DRM - Frequently Asked Questions by DefectiveByDesign

Guide to DRM-Free Living by DefectiveByDesign

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Is it ethical to DeDRM lent library ebooks? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This isn't a debate about the legality of the matter, but on whether it's ethical to DeDRM ebooks that you've checked out from a library. The publishing company and author are usually paid for each copy that you've lent, which is often why eBooks exhaust large parts of a library's budget. If you are able to loan a book for a month, but you DeDRM it and don't share it anyone else, and therefore instead finish it in two months, is this ethical? Or have you intentionally reduced the potential for more revenue to the author by instead not lending it twice? Do the publishers predatory licensing fees for libraries make this more ethical?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Think of it like this: if I had perfect memory of everything I've ever read, would that be DRM infringement?

No? So DRM on books is inherently ableist, right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Don't give them any ideas. With Neuralink they'll enforce DRM on our memories.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think I might literally prefer death over getting one of those chips

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You may one day, you or your children, not have a choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There's always a choice, and for my money the most important one is deciding to believe it is so.

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

There’s always a choice,

Really? Lucky for you then. There are plenty things II must do whether I like them or not. And things happening to me whether I want them to or not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I did not say we get to choose what our options are, only that there are always options to be chosen.

I believe that the first thing evil men must do to make us do evil is to convince us we have no choice.

But you do. And those choices are who you will have been, when it's all over.