DRM
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.
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.
Miscellaneous links
DRM - Frequently Asked Questions by DefectiveByDesign
Guide to DRM-Free Living by DefectiveByDesign
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What's your ideal outcome, pray tell?
I hope for a reddit type situation, where YouTube enshits itself to a degree that using and developing alternatives becomes attractive enough to finally break its monopoly.
I think realistically the only way that happens is if we somehow figure out how to do video with massively less bandwidth, or just move to indie platforms at far lower bandwidths. Would you be happy with potato quality video if it meant no broligarch monopolist BS? I might.
but we have figured it out, peertube exists specifically to solve the bandwidth problem.
Every viewer helps upload the parts of the video they have in browser cache, so with more viewers you have more people distributing the load, and so the origin server only experiences a fraction of the increased load.
Start with making videos smaller! Most (about 99%) video on the internet doesn't need to be 4K or even 1K; stuff like "head talking about product" content creators can just be 480p or even 360p without issue. That eases bandwidth issues a good lot.
I fully agree, but those sorts of videos often don't need to exist. A few pictures and some writing would be preferred.
Oh for sure, they totally don't need to exist (in particular the "head talking to promote product" kind). But if they are to exist anyway, it's easier on the selfhosters if they keep them small, which means fewer arguments against setting up your own instance (or joining in to some sort of coöp instance) which helps promote Peertube and this kind of sharing in general.
That said, I would not be opposed to 144p / 3gp from the old Nokia days.
Everyone gets a chip in their brain and we're all used as cloud storage.