Extracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub
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As Cory Doctorow once said "Any time that someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you but won't give you the key, that lock's not there for you." But here's the thing with the LCP DRM scheme; they do give you the key! As I've written about previously, LCP mostly relies on the user entering their password (the key) when they want to read the book. Oh, there's some deep cryptographic magic in the background but, ultimately, the key is sat on your computer waiting to be found. Of…

Finally there are some more methods to tackle LCP DRM, but the messages to the creator from Readium consortium is so frustrating. Just read this:

“We were planning to now focus on new accessibility features on our open-source Thorium Reader, better access to annotations for blind users and an advanced reading mode for dyslexic people. Too bad; disturbances around LCP will force us to focus on a new round of security measures, ensuring the technology stays useful for ebook lending (stop reading after some time) and as a protection against oversharing.”

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  • WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    DRM isn’t necessary, but they will do DRM if they can. They can, so someone gave them not so bad DRM so they wouldn’t use worse DRM. The USA could make DRM illegal, but it did the opposite.