Yingwu

Thanks for this! This should maybe be posted in a separate thread in a relevant community? [email protected] could be an alternative, but at the same time, DeDRMing does not always equal piracy (and is a legal thing to do in many countries in cases of personal backups etc).

Thanks for changing your mind :)

Why is DRM necessary? In the EU, many countries mostly just use digital watermarking for their native language e-books bought from stores (e.g. Germany and the Nordics). We got the music industry to get rid of DRM on music files. I'd argue watermarking is enough to discourage people, and no matter the DRM or no DRM all books still find their way to shadow libraries. I agree, as Terence also argues, that this is a very non-intrusive DRM, but which still has many problems of.. just being a DRM solution for one. The licensing fee to allow support for LCP is also absurd, and ranges from a few thousand USD to tens of thousands. There are therefore no FOSS apps capable of supporting the DRM, like KOReader or Librera. The solution in itself is not fully FOSS either.

And aren't you annoyed by their arrogant tone and how they try to blame, guilt, and threaten their way forward?

I'm not in the US. But from my research, it seems to not be as clear-cut as you state even in the US (e.g, https://gizmodo.com/its-perfectly-legal-to-tell-people-how-to-remove-drm-1670223538). The DMCA takedown issued to the NoDRM team was for including copyrighted LCP code from my understanding.

Either way, for this specific case, they had no legal grounds at all to threaten the guy.

It's a common misconception that stripping DRM is illegal. If you own the books, it's legal in most countries to strip the DRM. This method doesn't even touch the DRM, he just extracts the content after being delivered it. Maybe it's semantics, but it's not the same as using the DeDRM plugin for example.

Great explanation and recs! Sounds great. I think I was thrown off Tensura because of the fact that being reincarnated as a slime sounded too ridiculous (but I guess not as ridiculous as the ones where they reincarnate as a vending machine).

Wouldn't even think about posting anything AI on here, but yeah, this image from a glance might look like AI

Yeah I definitely think there's value to being cautious if one wants to promote the fediverse. While one can heavily dislike reddit, it's unnecessary to burn all the bridges if we still want people on reddit to discover Lemm/mbin/Piefed/what not.

Cool. I'm currently using MacroFactor. How does this compare?

I have a huge passion for Chinese. At the same time I still pursued a career in IT. The reason being that just learning a language won't open any doors, you need marketable skills as well that employers value. I'd recommend studying for it on your own time or during an extended time off from work. Either way, it takes an enormous amount of hours to get to a proficiency which will have a positive effect in your career. In much less time you'll be able to learn something else and probably have a higher chance of being employed and also earning more.

Nonetheless, learning a language is incredibly enriching.

Awkward. I typed it wrong! It's [email protected]

It's the future we were denied, but maybe we were better off being denied it in the end?