Remove DRM from PDF ebooks (Adobe Digital Editions)

Originally Posted by mman

I can't open the PDF. It gives me a registered to another user error, as my brother originally downloaded it under his adobe account on another computer, and than gave it to me before going back to college, not knowing it was DRM protected.

Of course DRM prevents you from opening file downloaded on another computer. You need to remove DRM protection on your brother's computer.

Originally Posted by mman

I tried to re-download/reinitialize the PDF again but it didn't help.

Were you able to re-download or not?

[inept2]

Originally Posted by Stream Recorder

Of course DRM prevents you from opening file downloaded on another computer. You need to remove DRM protection on your brother's computer.

Or copy your brothers key (adeptkey.der) to your computer.

[Bluesoju]

First I came in here to thank you guys for helping me do this.

Second, I found the instructions a little bit hard to follow. So I wanna make it easier for the next person. It was also hard enough to find this method. I've been searching for hours and looking for a simple program to do this.

I will rewrite the steps and even include all the files I used. I'm on windows 7, 64 bit. However the file versions I used were 32 bit versions because I saw someone in this thread say to use those instead.

1. All the files you need will be in the zip I'm about to link you to. Download this zip file:
   

   http://rapidshare.com/files/434887428/for_stupid_digital_protection.zip

2. Install python by running python 2.71.msi (originally found @ http://www.python.org/download/)
   
3. Run 'pycrypto-2.1.0.win32-py2.7.exe' (I had problems running the regular python files, so i downloaded the windows binary file for python 2.7 @ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/m...shtml#pycrypto )
   
4. Find where your digital files are stored, in my case it was a pdf and it was saved in "C:\Users\ *YOUR_USER_NAME* \Documents\My Digital Editions" where *YOUR_USER_NAME* is the name of the admin account of your computer.
   
5. Extract 'ineptepub.pyw', 'ineptkey.pyw' and 'ineptpdf74.pyw' into the directory from step 4.
   
6. Run 'ineptkey.pyw'. It will find the key and write it to hard disk as "ADEPTKEY.DER " in the same directory.
   
7. Since my file was a pdf, I ran the file 'ineptpdf74.pyw'. A popup will come up, now for the 'input file' find the pdf file (should be in the step 4 directory).
   
8. Output file give it a name + a pdf extension, for example file.pdf
   
9. And wa-la that's it. Hope that made it easier for you.

Some questions,

#1 Should I make this into a youtube tutorial and will there be any problems with doing it?

#2 If I distribute the new pdf file, will there be anything that can be traced back to me?

Anyway I'm so glad I don't have to use adobe digital edition.

Originally Posted by Bluesoju

#1 Should I make this into a youtube tutorial and will there be any problems with doing it?

#2 If I distribute the new pdf file, will there be anything that can be traced back to me?

Thank you for writing a tutorial. It will definitely help other users.

Video tutorials can help to understand better. Posting a video to youtube seems to be as risky as having this web-site up and running.

As for distributing PDF files, please don't do it. It is illegal. DRM removal software is designed and intended to make fair-use backups to the purchased ebooks so that you can read your ebooks on any device you have or will buy in the future.

[Bluesoju]

Originally Posted by Stream Recorder

Thank you for writing a tutorial. It will definitely help other users.

Video tutorials can help to understand better. Posting a video to youtube seems to be as risky as having this web-site up and running.

As for distributing PDF files, please don't do it. It is illegal. DRM removal software is designed and intended to make fair-use backups to the purchased ebooks so that you can read your ebooks on any device you have or will buy in the future.

Yeah I was wondering if it would be risky and if I could get in any trouble for doing so or risk adobe fixing the problem somehow.

Also I wasn't asking because I planned to distribute the ebook, I just just curious on DRM technology in general. I guess I should have worded it better in the original post to reflect that.

But, I at least supported the author and bought the book instead of downloading it

[SGOKEE]

hello - I am new and been trying to do this for 3 days now. I am on MAC10.6X, ADE 1.7.2, want to remove DRM from my Adobe PDF (ADE). In this process I found an application for MAC 10.5 or 10.6 only that helped alot but I am still now there. its free call ed alfs apprentice - DRM1.2 - http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/

but i wish i found DRM1.2 before i started trying...

where am i stuck:
1: I have my adeptkey. but nothing happens when I run the 7.0 version of ineptpdf.pyw file.
2: I checked I have python 2.5 under library folder. I installed python 2.6 but then removed it based on the other blog (viva eblog)
3: how do I get the lastest version ineptpdf8.4.42.pyw? I searched google but it takes me to this pastebin.com.. I don't know what pastebin is

what should I next do?

many thanks in advance

Originally Posted by SGOKEE

1: I have my adeptkey. but nothing happens when I run the 7.0 version of ineptpdf.pyw file.

Try the following:

1. Open Command Prompt (run cmd.exe).
2. Change the directory to where you saved the pyw scripts
   i.e.

   cd c:/undrm_tools/

3. Run ineptpdf.pyw by invoking python first as follows:
   

   python ineptpdf.pyw

   If that does not work, then try running it with pythonw as follows:
   

   pythonw ineptpdf.pyw

After running your scripts by invoking python or pythonw, you should get at least an error message that can be used to find out what is going wrong.

[SisterX]

Hi, thank you for the tutorial! Any chance you could re-up the "for_stupid_digital_protection" files? Looks like the file was limited to 10 downloads. Thanks!

Originally Posted by SisterX

Any chance you could re-up the "for_stupid_digital_protection" files? Looks like the file was limited to 10 downloads.

I didn't upload them and I don't have them after my HDD crash. But you should be able to get them from the DRM Tools Archive

[drmfree1]

Originally Posted by Bluesoju

First I came in here to thank you guys for helping me do this.

Second, I found the instructions a little bit hard to follow. So I wanna make it easier for the next person. It was also hard enough to find this method. I've been searching for hours and looking for a simple program to do this.

I will rewrite the steps and even include all the files I used. I'm on windows 7, 64 bit. However the file versions I used were 32 bit versions because I saw someone in this thread say to use those instead.

1. All the files you need will be in the zip I'm about to link you to. Download this zip file:
   

   http://rapidshare.com/files/434887428/for_stupid_digital_protection.zip

2. Install python by running python 2.71.msi (originally found @ http://www.python.org/download/)
   
3. Run 'pycrypto-2.1.0.win32-py2.7.exe' (I had problems running the regular python files, so i downloaded the windows binary file for python 2.7 @ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/m...shtml#pycrypto )
   
4. Find where your digital files are stored, in my case it was a pdf and it was saved in "C:\Users\ *YOUR_USER_NAME* \Documents\My Digital Editions" where *YOUR_USER_NAME* is the name of the admin account of your computer.
   
5. Extract 'ineptepub.pyw', 'ineptkey.pyw' and 'ineptpdf74.pyw' into the directory from step 4.
   
6. Run 'ineptkey.pyw'. It will find the key and write it to hard disk as "ADEPTKEY.DER " in the same directory.
   
7. Since my file was a pdf, I ran the file 'ineptpdf74.pyw'. A popup will come up, now for the 'input file' find the pdf file (should be in the step 4 directory).
   
8. Output file give it a name + a pdf extension, for example file.pdf
   
9. And wa-la that's it. Hope that made it easier for you.

Some questions,

#1 Should I make this into a youtube tutorial and will there be any problems with doing it?

#2 If I distribute the new pdf file, will there be anything that can be traced back to me?

Anyway I'm so glad I don't have to use adobe digital edition.

Thank you for the steps. I would add just one more to this:
to get the ineptpdf74.pyw file, the latest version is found at hxxp://ainept.freewebspace.com/. It is not included with the tools_v2.3.zip archive