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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How much of that is low effort garbage?
My guess would be 490h of those 500h
I don't think Peertube needs to be come as bloated as Youtube is, because Youtube is...there's people making good stuff on Youtube, among "host this video on Youtube and then embed it on our website" and "TTS robot voice reads Tumblr post over Minecraft jumping course Zoomer crack" to "most Hollywood movies, 2 minutes at a time with the bad words censored" to...whatever. The Peertube answer to a lot of that becomes "pssh, host your own video."
A lot of the stuff that's on Youtube just...doesn't need to be hauled out of the slush pile to build something thriving.
99.999% +/- 0.001
Oh sure, almost all of it. But that doesn't make things any easier to operate - it leaves you with basically 2 options:
Manually review every submitted video - which is literally thousands of individual video files per minute - so you need a massive staff of people who are paid to sit and watch absolute trash for their entire workday and then decide what is and isn't worth watching for other people - which is censorship - so not only are you incurring a massive operating cost but you also have to write some standard policy to handle the ethical issues of potentially suppressing free expression, and hopefully come up with some consistent guidelines you can get all of your employees to understand and follow (vs. just using their own individual personal judgement on what videos are good or not - imagine the proverbial Karen as a YouTube censor). A lot of those people are also going to end up watching some terrible shit and require long-term support for PTSD.
Automatically evaluate every submitted video with software - again thousands of videos per minute, and you want a software system that not only recognizes offensive material (within cultural context) but also can make value judgements about whether a video is "low-effort garbage" - which is such a vague concept that if you asked ten people you would get thirty different answers. Plus you also need to build an entire secondary server farm that doesn't help you store or stream the video content, but just watches and evaluates every uploaded video, and probably runs some kind of incredibly energy-intensive AI model to do it.
YouTube is of course implementing versions of both, and also relying on end-users to report bad content that slips through.
That's assuming a centralized, non-federated platform like Youtube. We're talking about Peertube and how it may have to run differently from Youtube in order to function. I think Peertube could, as an overall platform, accept less crap than Youtube kinda has to. And I think it would be done by moderating who gets to post on which instance.
Take MakerTube for example. It's a themed instance, they are only open to uploaders who do something arty and/or crafty. You have to apply for an account there, and if you want to post space documentaries, they'll probably suggest you go somewhere else. That right there takes a lot of burden off of MakerTube's admins for moderation. I'm imagining a few dozen other themed instances that operate similarly, for video game related content, science communication and infotainment, music, sports, whatever.
Some stuff I'm pretty sure everyone will agree we can just...not do on Peertube:
At some point I think you can winnow it down to "Hey there's a lot of good stuff on PeerTube" without allowing every shit for brains conspiracy theorist live stream in 4k until someone presses the report button.