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wallcraft · 05-19-2009, 06:45 PM

Python may already be installed. If not, I'm sure it is installable using your standard methods for finding applications. Make sure you install Python 2.6, not the new 3.0.

Once you have Python, mobidedrm.py will strip the DRM from MOBI ebooks, for example, and you can buy MOBIs using any web browser. This is a command-line program, which means that it is no harder to use from Linux than from Windows.

Part of the difficulty in answering your question is that DRM tools are specific to particular DRM schemes and also that DRM stripping tools don't typically have fancy interfaces (because no one wants to go to jail for providing "frills" to a working program). In the US, it might be legal to use a DRM removal tool but it is definitely illegal to write one.

05-19-2009, 06:45 PM	#4
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	Python may already be installed. If not, I'm sure it is installable using your standard methods for finding applications. Make sure you install Python 2.6, not the new 3.0. Once you have Python, mobidedrm.py will strip the DRM from MOBI ebooks, for example, and you can buy MOBIs using any web browser. This is a command-line program, which means that it is no harder to use from Linux than from Windows. Part of the difficulty in answering your question is that DRM tools are specific to particular DRM schemes and also that DRM stripping tools don't typically have fancy interfaces (because no one wants to go to jail for providing "frills" to a working program). In the US, it might be legal to use a DRM removal tool but it is definitely illegal to write one.