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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I appreciate the gratitude--I truly do. But I've actually come to regret the contributions I may have made to the project.
In my opinion, making it possible to remove DRM was always a good thing. But making it relatively trivial to do so was a mistake. I'm clearly in the minority there. So be it.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I never said anything about making it complicated/difficult. I said "trivial". And no creation of "elites" either. I just want to limit it to people who are willing to read a bit about how to find, install, and use it. Doesn't seem overly-restrictive to me for a tool that is targeting readers of books, after all. I'm not interested in helping people that want it to announce itself, download and install itself, liberate a library's worth of books, AND remove any and all metadata that may tie books to them all in one go.
It has been my experience that triviality tends to breed complacency and a sense of entitlement that, in my opinion, will cause more harm than it will help.
But I don't expect to convince anyone I'm right.
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Clearly you are right and to me this proves it. Not only easy but trivial combined with prominence presented what Readium perceives, rightly, as a serious threat to their whole business model. Further development of the tools may even ceases, or perhaps head for the dark web.
In the shorter term we can perhaps hope someone will step up and update the Apprentice Harper codebase leaving out the readium patches.