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		boomboomsubban on Sept 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flag... It's text, even the best DRM would be foiled by OCR. It's definitely illegal in the US though.

Aeolun on Sept 23, 2021 [–]

True, but flipping through the book to copy all pages is too much effort to copy the file to my remarkable instead.

boomboomsubban on Sept 23, 2021 | [–]

I'm pretty sure the kindle DRM is broken easier than that, DeDRM came up on my quick search, but flipping through the book to copy all the pages is an easily scriptable task.

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