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Originally Posted by eschwartz
DRM means the book has encrypted contents, nothing to do with filesystem permissions which is read+write abilities.
As long as you have the tools properly configured from here: http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com all books should be stripped of DRM if they have it.
If you want to tell which books are not yet stripped, you can try opening each one  the ones which are encrypted, calibre will not be able to read. |
Thanks Boss. Good explanation of DRM. (And a simple way of testing it.) I've known about Alf's thing. Ugh (it looks complicated), now that will be my next project to try to get that going. Thanks.
Boss, thought of something. I got this offer from Kobo for a free ebook. So I went for it. Turned out to be this labyrinthine-like process to just get it. Then the book turned out to have DRM and I had to go to Adobe to get an account. Well, it turned into this endless hassle and I gave up. (The process did make me utterly convinced to never make my books DRM though.) I did save one thing from the Kobo hassle. Honestly I don't know if it can help me get the book (I'd still like to get the book) or not. Maybe you could take a peek. (I'll attach it.) Thanks. I couldn't attach it, so I'll copy and paste it here.
The file is called URLLink.acsm (And I
probably got this from Adobe.)
Here's the innards (that I opened in Mousepad):
<fulfillmentToken fulfillmentType="buy" xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/adept">
<distributor>urn:uuid:18fe3022-eb24-4fd1-8f6c-e63140c013ca</distributor>
<operatorURL>http://acs4.shortcovers.com:8080/fulfillment</operatorURL>
<expiration>2014-02-22T05:49:03-05:00</expiration>
<transaction>c0af04bc-b19f-4541-8da8-15963d69e05c</transaction>
<resourceItemInfo>
<resource>urn:uuid:76030dba-7bdc-4b4c-93b7-b9ce9e1ad11b</resource>
<resourceItem>1</resourceItem>
<metadata>
<dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Write. Publish. Repeat.</dc:title>
<dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Johnny B. Truant and Sean Platt</dc:creator>
<dc:format xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">application/epub+zip</dc:format>
<dc:language xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">en</dc:language>
</metadata>
<src>http://ecimages.shortcovers.com/76030dba-7bdc-4b4c-93b7-b9ce9e1ad11b.epub</src>
<downloadType>simple</downloadType>
</resourceItemInfo>
<hmac>4+LGO6MCcJvRDH+eh2DF3nVMY7Q=</hmac>
</fulfillmentToken>