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And, unlike some other crimes, a criminal copyright infringement cannot even be started without a complainant. In other words, if someone beats you up, the police don't have to have you "press charges". The police would prefer that you do, but it's not required. For copyright, though, if the copyright holder does not complain, then it isn't criminal. |
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Because it's not required to remove DRM.
All files not natively supported by Calibre require a file input plugin, and you must install it to allow Calibre to import them, and is explained in Calibre's documentation. |
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If you search for "DeDRM", you might have issues, but my instructions never mention that term, because it won't get you what you need. |
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While there are file input plugins for Microsoft's .DOC format and Kobo Kepub ePub format variant, since you only mentioned Amazon in your original post and calibre out of the box supports KF8/azw3 and mobi, KFX is the only format that most people are going to run into following your work flow. To me, it made sense to include it in the install procedure. Not even sure if I would include the Kepub plugin as an input plugin since basically all it does is to remove the extra spans which are do nothings for anyone not using the Kobo Webkit based renderer and the DRM scheme used by Kobo is not supported within the DeDRM plugin though the .zip file download does include the Obok plugin for Kobo ebooks. |
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The plugin's been known for years as DeDRM. Unless they're specifically seeing your instructions, they likely wouldn't think to search for NoDRM.
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03-28-2024, 03:28 PM | #82 |
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Certainly on DuckDuckGo the 1st hit for DeDRM is ancient version and the 1st hit for noDRM is the current git place.
But DRM Removal as a search finds loads of irrelevant stuff and STILL returns Alf / Apprentice Harper, but lower down the search. Last edited by Quoth; 03-28-2024 at 03:43 PM. |
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Typing "remove drm" into Google gets perfectly relevant hits right at the top for me. I can't imagine a noob that would be be typing anything like DeDRM or NoDRM into a search engine. The only people who know those terms already know where to go.
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When I type in "remove DRM", the second result is a certain code-stealing commercial product. The first is a MakeUseOf article that links to the outdated DeDRM.
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03-28-2024, 05:39 PM | #85 |
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What I find a bit humorous is that when I typed calibre remove drm, the first hit is from Reddit mention DeDRM 10.0.2 while the second is from Epubor which gives decent instructions for installing the calibre DeDRM 10.0.9 plugin.
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Yes. Which should easily lead a motivated searcher to the next step toward what they need. I'm not certain why people think their searches very first results needs to take them directly to the promised land. Learning to remove drm is not a one-search-read-a-paragraph-or-two affair. It never has been.
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If a new person comes to these forums and starts to read the mega-thread on this topic, they're going to run into the term "DeDRM" much more frequently than "NoDRM" for the first 5000 pages or so (although the first post in the thread was edited by a mod and mentions NoDRM - that was a thoughtful move). The first time I ran into the term NoDRM, I thought it was a typo. The second time, I thought it was a competing tool, and I am more prone to continue using the original when a competitor pops up. Eventually I figured out that NoDRM was a replacement, not a competitor. This is probably first stated explicitly on page 5001 of the thread. |
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But I agree that "remove drm" or "drm removal" are far more likely searches than nodrm or dedrm. |
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