When we're as surrounded by streaming platforms as we are now, it's easy to forget that the DRM-free life still exists. Even now, there are dozens of record labels, publishers, and online retailers that refuse to abuse their customers. Learn about them in the Guide: https://u.fsf.org/1lr #EndDRM #DRM
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One of our authors, S. Parnam-Harris, isn't on social media, but she is running a 50% off sale on #DriveThruFiction during the #FediBookFair weekend.
The books are available as ePub or PDF, and do not have #DRM.
One of our authors, S. Parnam-Harris, isn't on social media, but she is running a 50% off sale on #DriveThruFiction during the #FediBookFair weekend.
They're available as ePub and PDF, and unencumbered by #DRM.
They say "rights," we say "restrictions" #DRM are not for your digital /rights/, they are /restrictions/ imposed on you. Celebrate your own intellect by staying away from DRM. Learn more about DRM-free living at https://u.fsf.org/44y
If you're wondering how things are going with the famous #DRM'd Polish trains, well, their manufacturer – #Newag – sued the hackers who had un-blocked them:
https://rys.io/en/175.html
But weirdly, after months of implying and suggesting that the locking code was added to the software by the hackers themselves, in the lawsuit the company now insists they did not in fact modify the software installed on the trains.
Why? Because that would not mesh well with the copyright infringement claim. 🤡
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“Amazon will let you download your e-books in EPUB in 2026”
So, this could be big for authors on KDP. Customers will be able to use any eReader they wish to read their books.
I’ve been on a Kobo Clara Colour (with Kobo Plus) for a while. And I’d love to slip a few Kindle Exclusive titles in. The whole exclusivity thing is kind of galling, from an e-reader/walled garden perspective.
This sounds great from a consumer-freedom perspective. But I understand there may be some authors who are reluctant or worried.
Personally... If the Napster wars era of mp3’s (ending up in Spotify/Amazon Music/et al.) taught anyone anything, it is that as long as you provide a product at a reasonable price, in a conveniently accessible manner, you won’t have a piracy problem.
https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-will-let-you-download-your-e-books-in-epub-in-2026
Are you going to update your books to remove DRM?
https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-emailing-authors-about-the-new-epub-and-pdf-formats
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"Quando estamos tão cercados por plataformas de streaming quanto estamos agora, é fácil esquecer que a vida livre de DRM ainda existe. Mesmo agora, existem dezenas de gravadoras, editoras e varejistas online que se recusam a abusar de seus clientes. Saiba mais sobre eles no Guia: https
https://u.fsf.org/1lr"
When we're as surrounded by streaming platforms as we are now, it's easy to forget that the DRM-free life still exists. Even now, there are dozens of record labels, publishers, and online retailers that refuse to abuse their customers. Learn about them in the Guide: https://u.fsf.org/1lr #EndDRM #DRM
Last month, some authors were concerned at the news that Amazon would start to allow ebook buyers to download ebooks in ePub or PDF format if DRM was not enabled. Some authors that hadn't used DRM in the past considered enabling it to prevent these downloads.
The feature was rolled out recently, so I tried downloading three books (one of mine, and two traditionally published books) that don't have DRM.
When looking at my purchased books in the digital content area, some books had a "Download available in additional formats" note in the listing, and they had a "Download EPUB/PDF" option under "More actions".
On the books that I tried, clicking that option downloaded a zip file with a 72-character long file name starting "ebook-content." and a .zip extension. Examining the zip file, it's an ePub with a .zip extension. So changing the extension from .zip to .epub allows me to view it in an ebook reader.
No sign of a PDF in any of these cases.
I'm not impressed at how Amazon have implemented this change, but I still see no reason to enable DRM on any of my books.
~Robin
#WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #SelfPublishing #Amazon #KDP #DRM
@writingbooks
They say "rights," we say "restrictions" #DRM are not for your digital /rights/, they are /restrictions/ imposed on you. Celebrate your own intellect by staying away from DRM. Learn more about DRM-free living at https://u.fsf.org/44y
Strip the DRM from your Kindle books, simple effective, free, online https://dedrm.com/
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Ordered my #Kobo yesterday (the basic color one, forgot the name).
Bummed that I missed the $20 price reduction by mere days, but eh, I guess that's my #Chidi moment of indecision for ya.
Looking forward to enjoying mostly #DRM-free and DRM-liberated content on it, although I will also be reading a good number of library books via Overdrive. That's a dance with the devil in the pale moonlight that I'm actually ok with, since I'm not paying any actual money for it, although my city is.
#DRM isn't just an annoyance -- it's a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @endDRM
2 links below,
This is why I buy #DRMFree titles and if a DRM Free option isn't viable, I just skip it and read something else that isn't DRM locked https://www.theverge.com/tech/908302/amazon-ending-support-kindle-fire-tablet-e-reader-pre-2012-older
And you can find DRM Free bookshops at https://libreture.com/bookshops/
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Kobo(dot com) has eReaders that work great and so far they haven't gotten weird about what you can do with any old readers. My oldest one is going on 9 years old and has been passed down to my kid, who uses it daily.
Additionally, you can still break the DRM of Kobo books easily in Calibre. You don't need Amazon for literally anything book-related at this point. Every eBook I own (around 4k at this point?) is FREE. They are mine. It's still possible to do this. (If an author only sells on Amazon, well, that's a choice they made.)
Audiobooks? There's libro.fm, which lets you download unlocked files. All your current "locked" Audible books? You can easily break the locks on all of those too. My audiobooks are all free.
While California is at the forefront of print blocking, the impacts will be felt far outside of its borders. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/dangers-californias-legislation-censor-3d-printing #AB2047 #opensource #3dprinting #DRM
Un exemple de plus, s'il en fallait pour convaincre tous ceux qui "achètent" encore aujourd'hui du contenu dématérialisé à base de DRM (ebooks, musiques, films, jeux-vidéos...)
Le contenu n'appartient pas à l'acheteur qui ne possède qu'un droit d'accès, tant que la plateforme le veut bien, elle se garde le droit de supprimer voire de modifier tout contenu sous license... 🤷♂️
Vive mes oeuvres physiques ❤️ DVDs, CDs, bouquins, Blu-ray PS4 🤞
This is why @pluralistic is always preaching about #DRM-free digital media and software. Sony is deleting over 500 movies customers paid for through the PlayStation Store because they don’t want to renew their license with Studio Canal. #enshittification
One could argue that by moving from one DRM-restricted walled garden like PlayStation or Xbox to Steam is not a real solution since Steam is the same in that one does not truly own their purchases, you’re only buying a license to play the game.
Everyone trusts Valve now, but remember when everyone was up in arms about Xbox not allowing for the reselling of game discs? Remember Sony’s brutal video on how to share games on PS4 using discs? Everyone celebrated and trusted Sony then, now 13 years later?
I don’t work for GOG, but I do think they are doing things right for gamers — selling games that are DRM-free and come with offline installers. This way when I buy a game, I own the game. They might not have the latest AAA titles, but games that were fun before are still fun today — and the benefit is that they’re cheaper and fully patched up.
Let’s not keep supporting businesses that don’t let us own what we buy digitally.
https://social.gamefan.net/@gamewire/116897085641691239
cc: @lisamelton
#gaming #videogames #playstation #xbox #steam #gog #ownership #drm
Everyone trusts Valve now, but remember when everyone was up in arms about Xbox not allowing for the reselling of game discs? Remember Sony’s brutal video on how to share games on PS4 using discs? Everyone celebrated and trusted Sony then, now 13 years later?
I don’t work for GOG, but I do think they are doing things right for gamers — selling games that are DRM-free and come with offline installers. This way when I buy a game, I own the game. They might not have the latest AAA titles, but games that were fun before are still fun today — and the benefit is that they’re cheaper and fully patched up.
Let’s not keep supporting businesses that don’t let us own what we buy digitally.
https://social.gamefan.net/@gamewire/116897085641691239
cc: @lisamelton
#gaming #videogames #playstation #xbox #steam #gog #ownership #drm
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They say "rights," we say "restrictions" #DRM are not for your digital /rights/, they are /restrictions/ imposed on you. Celebrate your own intellect by staying away from DRM. Learn more about DRM-free living at https://u.fsf.org/44y
FreeBSD: DRM: virtio-gpu: 2D KMS driver for QEMU/UTM/libvirt guests by borovikovd · Pull Request #499
https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/pull/499
❮… developed with heavy AI assistance. Knowing the failure modes of AI-generated code, it went through adversarial review and testing rather than just "it works":
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Root causes for the platform workarounds (notify-window fault, interrupt arming, indirect descriptors) are documented in the commit messages and README. …❯
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Partial background: an issue that was raised more than five years ago, <https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/issues/62>.
#FreeBSD #AI #virtual #graphics #virtio #QEMU #UTM #libvirt #KMS #DRM #VirtualBox