Digital Restrictions Management is an abomination. I try to avoid it, but ever so often you stumble upon something, and you need it in readable, unrestricted form. Turns out, the mechanisms for removing DRM are just as an unholy mess of outdated software and scripts for proprietary systems as the DRM systems themselves.<\/p>\n
The first thing you get when stumbling upon Adobe DRM is an Apparently, there’s several versions of Adobe DRM, and you can enforce an earlier one with a downgrade attack, by using Adobe Digital Editions 2.01<\/a> for Windows, apparently still available from Adobe, as it’s the last version to run on Windows Vista and Windows 7.<\/p>\n And yes, you need to create an account at Adobe to use these.<\/p>\n I actually tried ot the newest one (4.5.11) as well. Installation is straightforward:<\/p>\n According to winehq.org<\/a> this should work, but upon trying to download anything with it, it returned ADE 2.01 is a bit trickier, it needs a 32bit wine prefix, and dotnet 3.5, servicepack 1. As 4.5.11 it needs corefonts too.<\/p>\n Again according to winehq.org<\/a> this should work as well, but also returned So I’ve been looking for other apps, some open source on github or somesuch, that could use Upon loading a .acsm File in Aldiko (from anywhere, basically, I copied some I downloaded with the Browser on my Workstation into I initially tried to get DeDRM<\/a> working standalone or with my Calibre on Linux, but it turned out this thing is a collection of dozens of scripts, which all demand python 2.7. Which is EOL, and which no sane person should use aynmore. As you can see from the pull-requests and issues, there’s some efforts of making these work on contemporary python, but these went nowhere so far (“Python tests (2.7) failed” — duh!).<\/p>\n Also, as it turned out, after I fixed one of the scripts to run with python 3, these things rely on the existence of ADE on your system; and you either need to somehow convert registry-entries or get files from MacOS to get the device key and the licence key. Which then are pumped through some assembler(!) to get a useful What I did instead was to install python-2.7.msi<\/a>, pycrypto-2.6.win32-py2.7.exe<\/a> and calibre-3.48.0.msi<\/a> into the wine-prefix and run from there:<\/p>\n Within calibre, finally, in “preferences -> Plug-ins -> Load Plugin from file” I installed The books downloaded with Aldiko on Android and copied over can now be added to the collection in calibre, and have their DRM removed automatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Digital Restrictions Management is an abomination. I try to avoid it, but ever so often you stumble upon something, and you need it in readable, unrestricted form. Turns out, the mechanisms for removing DRM are just as an unholy mess of outdated software and scripts for proprietary systems as the DRM systems themselves. The first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,2,96,67],"tags":[114,113,112],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-computers","category-ebooks","category-security","tag-adobe-digital-editions","tag-dedrm","tag-drm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}.acsm<\/code> (Adobe Content Server Message) file. It’s an XML that tells Adobe Digital Editions (and Apps that implement it) where to download the data.<\/p>\nWINEPREFIX=~\/.wine.ade4 winetricks corefonts dotnet40; \\\nWINEPREFIX=~\/.wine.ade4 wine ADE_4.5_Installer.exe\n<\/pre>\n
E_ADEPT_DOCUMENT_TOO_SHORT<\/code>.<\/p>\nWINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~\/.wine.ade2 winetricks corefonts dotnet35sp1; \\\nWINEPREFIX=~\/.wine.ade2 wine ADE_2.0_Installer.exe\n<\/pre>\n
E_ADEPT_DOCUMENT_TOO_SHORT<\/code>, which might point to some network-problem, winbind-error, crypto-library too new or somesuch. In any case, you can’t find anything useful by searching for the error.<\/p>\n.acsm<\/code> files for download. And I found at least one: Aldiko, on Android. It’s apparently also abandoned, but it still can be found on Google Play. I got myself Aldiko Classic 3.1.3.<\/p>\n\/sdcard\/Download<\/code>), you get prompted to enter your Adobe acocunt; after that it downloads the books to \/sdcard\/eBooks<\/code>. And you can copy over these to any device that has the keys for your adobe account. Like your wine-prefix.<\/p>\n.der<\/code> file. All in all, too complicated,<\/p>\nWINEPREFIX=~\/.wine.ade2 wine msiexec \/i python-2.7.msi; \\\nWINEPREFIX=~\/.wine.ade2 wine pycrypto-2.6.win32-py2.7.exe; \\\nWINEPREFIX=~\/.wine.ade2 wine msiexec \/i calibre-3.48.0.msi\n<\/pre>\n
DeDRM_Plugin.zip<\/code> from DeDRM_tools_6.7.0.zip<\/code>.<\/p>\n