Awesome community you've setup here. Thanks for contributing to our instance :)
DRM
A community for the discussion of topics surrounding DRM, Digital Rights Management.
All media that DRM can be applied on can be discussed here, for example books, movies, music or games.
Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures, such as access control technologies, can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. DRM technologies govern the use, modification and distribution of copyrighted works (e.g. software, multimedia content) and of systems that enforce these policies within devices. DRM technologies include licensing agreements and encryption.
Guides and useful tools
Quick and dirty way to rip an eBook from Android
2025 Guide for freeing books from Amazon (after D&T was removed)
Guide to Removing DRM From Amazon Kindle E-Books
Liberate your Kindle books before leaving Amazon (Tutorial)
How to setup Calibre to remove DRM from ebooks on Linux/Archive mirror
Guide on removing DRM from Kobo & Kindle eBooks (reddit mirror, Archive link)
Extracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub
DeDRM tools for eBooks: a plugin for Calibre for removing Adobe DRM, Obok etc.
Miscellaneous links
DRM - Frequently Asked Questions by DefectiveByDesign
Guide to DRM-Free Living by DefectiveByDesign
Thanks for the kind words! Just gotta get more content posted :)
Is it still being updated? If so, might have a few more names:
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Itchio: maybe counts as overall contents too, even if scale tips to games?
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iTunes for music. Files come as .m4a and can convert to .mp3 within ITunes itself. Accessing the store requires an Windows or Apple device with the ITunes program installed, and at least on Windows, you can open Apple Music links directly on the ITunes Store by swapping
https
forstart itms
and adding?app=itunes
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Fireflower Games (https://fireflowergames.com/): for games
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Steam: would it count considering this list? Also for music without caveats.
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Peertube: each video has a native download button from what I observed
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Fanatical: mainly for book bundles
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Humble Bundle: also for games
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Humble Widgets: some stuff can only be found through those, and usually you need to find them manually as those widgets are made to be put in developers' sites.
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Ototoy: for music; some stuff is geolocked outside of Japan, though somewhat rare from my experience
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Supraph Online (https://www.supraphonline.cz/), for music. According to the guy behind IsThereAnyDeal, it's a company he sees retail stores in the Czech Republic, so appears legit, I think
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Amazon US: it has a selection of DRM-free games in the store, but they seem to be slowly delisting the titles there, maybe due to most being at least about as young as Windows Vista. Also has musics in .mp3 format, but apparently with geoblocking, at least in my country.
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Nigel Stanford, 6502 Workshop, Learn Japanese to Survive, Neofid's Studio, Red Candle Games and Slitherine's respective platforms. Aside from Stanford's (musics & music videos), all others are for games.
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Lexaloffle Games: only familiar with the PICO-8 side of the site, so can only talk about the games posted in that part - every game can be downloaded if it has a pink cartridge icon under their games' respective web players - click the icon, download the "image" that opens, and either run or recompile through the PICO-8 player, or play through emulators.
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MAME and Retroarch both make some ROMs available, according to them, with permission from the rights holders, the former through a page on their site, and Retroarch afaik only through the downloader within the frontend (maybe it's somewhere like Libretro's buildbot too, but can't remember).
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Also multiple smut platforms, but unsure if I should comment further on them since, well, smut
Thank you! I'll look over the list and add them later. Yes, I'm active, but I wish more people would be active here as well :)
Brandon Sanderson offers many of his ebooks on bookshop.org DRM-free: https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=Brandon+Sanderson
Thanks, unfortunately US only but Sanderson is published by TOR who pretty much releases all of their books DRM-free.
In case anyone is interested to read in French, may I suggest those specific addresses some free some not free:
- Public domain French authors (mostly fiction): Ebooks libres et gratuits (free)
- The official French Bibiliothèque Nationale's Gallica. Teh website is, like most institutional things not the best experience one could wish for (I am being polite, here) but they offer a lot of free PDFs as well as a limited selection of Epubs (Free).
- Les classiques des sciences social, with a large selection of essays and academic papers (free)
- [La bibliothèque numérique Romande](https://ebooks-bnr.com/: Swiss fiction writers, with quite a few gems to be found in there too (free)
- 7switch.com. Not all their ebooks are DRM-free but its mentioned... or at least it was I have not purchased from them in quite a few years ($)
- Le Belial a small but excellent science-fiction/fantasy publisher. No DRM and they sell through their own store. I've been their customers for countless years ($)
- An even smaller publisher SF/Fantasy, but as good : Dystopia Editions. Obviously, DRM-free ($)
If you would rather limit the list to English, you're more than welcome to delete my comment ;)