Adobe Digital Editions' ebook DRM: Difference between revisions

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On Reddit, consumers are constantly inquiring about steps to remove the Adobe DRM, as it is obstructing the end-users method of being able to comfortably read the ebooks they have purchased. One of the multiple examples, can be seen at the following link: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/xvct89/adobe_digital_editions_drm/.

An online persona known as ApprenticeAlf, has also gone ahead to create a tool to remove DRM as well from multiple forms of DRM, not ~~being limited to~~ Adobe's. This can be found here: https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-tools-for-ebooks/.

== Adobe Ebook DRM Removal ==

In the Abbey House Media v. Apple Inc ruling on an ebookstore notifying users of how to remove ebook DRM, a judge has ruled that telling users to remove DRM from books they have legally purchased is "not contributory copyright infringement"<ref>https://www.eff.org/document/abbey-house-media-v-apple-inc</ref><ref name=":3">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/pointing-users-drm-stripping-software-isnt-copyright-infringement-judge-rules?language=en</ref>. The summary of this case being that the removal of DRM protection on books in non-infringing cases of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not necessarily lead to the piracy of digital books<ref name=":3" />.

An online persona known as ApprenticeAlf, has also gone ahead to create a tool to remove DRM as well from multiple forms of ebook DRM, not only Adobe's. This can be found here: https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-tools-for-ebooks/.

An external guide on removing Adobe ebook DRM on a Debian-based system exists on https://www.harisqazi.com/configurations/digital-books#adobe-drm-removal-linux. This guide serves as a complete walk-through to set up a system to remove the Adobe ebook DRM leveraging multiple publicly available tools. A copy of this guide can be found archived on archive.org as well: https://web.archive.org/web/20250209023155/https://www.harisqazi.com/configurations/digital-books/#adobe-drm-removal-linux.

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 On Reddit, consumers are constantly inquiring about steps to remove the Adobe DRM, as it is obstructing the end-users method of being able to comfortably read the ebooks they have purchased. One of the multiple examples, can be seen at the following link: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/xvct89/adobe_digital_editions_drm/.
-An online persona known as ApprenticeAlf, has also gone ahead to create a tool to remove DRM as well from multiple forms of DRM, not being limited to Adobe's. This can be found here: https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-tools-for-ebooks/.
+== Adobe Ebook DRM Removal ==
+In the Abbey House Media v. Apple Inc ruling on an ebookstore notifying users of how to remove ebook DRM, a judge has ruled that telling users to remove DRM from books they have legally purchased is "not contributory copyright infringement"<ref>https://www.eff.org/document/abbey-house-media-v-apple-inc</ref><ref name=":3">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/pointing-users-drm-stripping-software-isnt-copyright-infringement-judge-rules?language=en</ref>. The summary of this case being that the removal of DRM protection on books in non-infringing cases of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not necessarily lead to the piracy of digital books<ref name=":3" />.
+An online persona known as ApprenticeAlf, has also gone ahead to create a tool to remove DRM as well from multiple forms of ebook DRM, not only Adobe's. This can be found here: https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-tools-for-ebooks/.
+An external guide on removing Adobe ebook DRM on a Debian-based system exists on https://www.harisqazi.com/configurations/digital-books#adobe-drm-removal-linux. This guide serves as a complete walk-through to set up a system to remove the Adobe ebook DRM leveraging multiple publicly available tools. A copy of this guide can be found archived on archive.org as well: https://web.archive.org/web/20250209023155/https://www.harisqazi.com/configurations/digital-books/#adobe-drm-removal-linux.
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