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Or host it on a Tor hidden service!
A tor-ified github clone would be interesting. You'd probably see a lot of cool pro-freedom software projects that are illegal in their originating country, like this one.
Any idea how this compares to Apprentice Alf's tools?
This is much newer, but I think it will eventually be included. This tool is an implementation of https://pastebin.com/raw/E1xgCUmb
That's not DRM, but Watermarking. I don't see any reason why you should object to watermarking. Contrary to DRM it doesn't hurt real costumers at all and only helps finding people that distribute books without compensating the author.
Some reasons why watermarks could be objectionable are covered in the accompanying Torrentfreak article (already linked in other comments here): "'Books should be used as tools for disseminating knowledge and information. What ‘social DRM’ watermarking systems do instead is turn books into tools of surveillance and oppression by monitoring who shares what knowledge, where,' IBI explain. "'We don’t like this, and beca…
The thing with the regime seems a bit constructed, but even then authors can just decide to publish those few books where this applies without watermarks. If your goal is to reach people living in a regime you would want to translate the text from english into the language of the place anyway (I don't know of english speaking regimes)
Every day I see submissions here that are cracks, keygens, etc., and they always get flagged and killed. I'm not familiar with BooXtream, specifically, but I'm curious what it is about this that is different? This is for DRM, sure, but it seems very similar to me.
Those are almost always spammy. If there's something intellectually interesting about the post, that would be different. (Not saying that's the case here.)
We s/DRM/Watermark/'d the title since people were complaining about that bit.
That's not DRM, but Watermarking. I don't see any reason why you should object to watermarking. Contrary to DRM it doesn't hurt real costumers at all and only helps finding people that distribute books without compensating the author.