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DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked from GitHub

104 points by hn_acker 2y ago

userbinator 2y ago
I suppose this is another example of Streisand Effect... never heard of this project and now I do, and I guess many others are going to mirror it now that they do as well.
- bcraven 2y ago
  I suggest Vinetrimmer and Devine as places to start looking.
digianarchist 2y ago
Mirror https://cdm-project.com/tpd94/CDRM-Project https://cdm-project.com/tpd94/CDRM-Project
- A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 2y ago
  Doing god's work.
- smartbit 2y ago
  > This version DOES NOT come with CDM's (Content Decryption Modules) or the link to automatically download them
  - khedoros1 2y ago
    Doesn't that just mean that you'd have to provide your own copy of the WideVine library, or something?
  - ThatPlayer 2y ago
    Looks like they've since added the ability for the program to download those modules from their website automatically.
    - bcraven 2y ago
      I'm not seeing that specifically. WVD files come in a few flavours but the L1 ones are quite rare and would not be distributed freely. You can dump L3 from a rooted Android phone yourself but even those are hard to come by without some deep forum spelunking
      - ThatPlayer 2y ago
        You're right. I'm going off this commit which removes the message about not coming with CDMs, and yeah seems to download L3 : https://cdm-project.com/tpd94/CDRM-Project/commit/4382ff2e5fd46f2e44f482a379df4eb93c62709f#diff-769d0a1a17c95008046ff8e29e121e024a8b2653 https://cdm-project.com/tpd94/CDRM-Project/commit/4382ff2e5f...
deadbabe 2y ago
So this is why we can’t have nice things
- drivingmenuts 2y ago
  Konzerne über alles.
greatgib 2y ago
If maintainers/contributors are in Europe, in don't see how this takedown is legal as you have the right to circumvent such things to ensure interoperability...
- Aloisius 2y ago
  GitHub is subject to US law. Some European would need a law forbidding companies doing business in their country from complying with this US law for there to be any question of legality.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2y ago
  github is microsoft therefore american
delichon 2y ago
There are few mothers of invention as fecund as a nerd who wants to watch porn. If the world is about to be destroyed it would be ideal if the problem turns out to be isomorphic with decoding a clip of people having sex.
- brailsafe 2y ago
  Careers and all that other crap we do are just things that get in the way sometimes. Inventions themselves are neat, saving the world is neat, but not as neat as fuckin!
devwastaken 2y ago
onlyfans is obviously doing this so people will pirate more. thats all that ever happens with these kinds of virtue takedowns. DRM is a scam, its made to convince business suits they can magically prevent copying. no one makes money telling them theyre wrong and their business model is to blame.
- bcraven 2y ago
  I don't follow- why would OF want people "to pirate more"? What business would want that?
__MatrixMan__ 2y ago
> One of the most widespread is Google’s Widevine and avoiding its footprint today is almost futile. I don't know about that. Brave asks me if I want to install the widevine extension and I just say no and go elsewhere. I guess it's possible that I just don't know what I'm missing, but it's been fine so far. Now that I'm aware of the circumvention effort though, I'll probably look into it.
- viraptor 2y ago
  You will know when you need it. You're likely not streaming videos from the usual big providers in that browser.
  - azalemeth 2y ago
    I haven't ever bought DRM content, and actively delete widevine from every browser I encounter. It's amazing how often it's used for adding unique IDs, amongst other evil purposes.
    - gruez 2y ago
      >It's amazing how often it's used for adding unique IDs, amongst other evil purposes. Really? Maybe ublock catches most of the fingerprinters, but I rarely see the prompt to enable DRM.
  - __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
    That's true. I found the whole streaming thing kind of finicky back in the day so my habit is to torrent the whole thing up front so that whatever problems I might have half-way through a movie are all self inflicted and not associated somebody's downtime.
kotaKat 2y ago
The worst part of Widevine DRM in this application is that even the content models themselves are accidentally victims of using the DRM model in the first place. I've got a few contacts that I explained how Widevine "downgrading" works to and they had a sudden realization as to the source of some of their biggest complaints from some of their users... ... You see, in the Widevine dumping community, the biggest prized jewel is a "keybox" that can decode Widevine's top content - an L1 keybox. As soon as a device is compromised and its keybox is widely distributed for wider Widevine cracking, the keybox is revoked or downgraded to L3 playback at best - 480p. And the complaint I asked if they'd gotten? Poor viewing quality on all video, especially from Android device users, and especially from "lower end" Android devices. Check, check, and check. Legitimate customers end up victim to Widevine DRM "silent" failure that they then blame the content creator for, despite the content creator putting out full resolution content for everyone to watch, which leads to the content creator losing a customer that feels they've been gaslit out of possible confusion from the creator not knowing what happened.
- ffsm8 2y ago
  You are portraying the creator as another victim here, but they chose to use the platform using that drm - likely partially because of the promise of said drm.
  - blincoln 2y ago
    If one isn't technical, DRM sounds like a great thing. "Finally, a way to keep people from getting your content without paying for it!" Of course, it doesn't, and makes the experience worse for actual customers. Seeing their work widely pirated is demoralizing enough for conventional content creators. I imagine the scale it happens at with adult material, and the intimate nature of the work magnifies that sense of being cheated dramatically for OF models.
_imnothere 2y ago
Nice try I guess. https://github.com/TPD94/CDRM-Project-2.0 https://github.com/TPD94/CDRM-Project-2.0
- smartbit 2y ago
  Like above mirror https://cdm-project.com/tpd94/CDRM-Project https://cdm-project.com/tpd94/CDRM-Project > This version DOES NOT come with CDM's (Content Decryption Modules) or the link to automatically download them - A simple web search should help you find what you're looking for.
like_any_other 2y ago
40 years later and we're still fighting for the right to use VCRs, despite a Supreme Court victory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive....
- nadermx 2y ago
  Seperate 5th circut said breaking DRM is fair use as well http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/08/08-10521-CV0.wpd.pdf http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/08/08-10521-CV0.wpd...
jerryseff 2y ago
Would be cool just to see the code written to do this!

104 points by hn_acker 2y ago

I suppose this is another example of Streisand Effect... never heard of this project and now I do, and I guess many others are going to mirror it now that they do as well.

bcraven 2y ago
I suggest Vinetrimmer and Devine as places to start looking.

digianarchist 2y ago

Mirror https://cdm-project.com/tpd94/CDRM-Project https://cdm-project.com/tpd94/CDRM-Project

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 2y ago
Doing god's work.
smartbit 2y ago
> This version DOES NOT come with CDM's (Content Decryption Modules) or the link to automatically download them
- khedoros1 2y ago
  Doesn't that just mean that you'd have to provide your own copy of the WideVine library, or something?
- ThatPlayer 2y ago
  Looks like they've since added the ability for the program to download those modules from their website automatically.
  - bcraven 2y ago
    I'm not seeing that specifically. WVD files come in a few flavours but the L1 ones are quite rare and would not be distributed freely. You can dump L3 from a rooted Android phone yourself but even those are hard to come by without some deep forum spelunking
    - ThatPlayer 2y ago
      You're right. I'm going off this commit which removes the message about not coming with CDMs, and yeah seems to download L3 : https://cdm-project.com/tpd94/CDRM-Project/commit/4382ff2e5fd46f2e44f482a379df4eb93c62709f#diff-769d0a1a17c95008046ff8e29e121e024a8b2653 https://cdm-project.com/tpd94/CDRM-Project/commit/4382ff2e5f...

deadbabe 2y ago

So this is why we can’t have nice things

drivingmenuts 2y ago
Konzerne über alles.

greatgib 2y ago

If maintainers/contributors are in Europe, in don't see how this takedown is legal as you have the right to circumvent such things to ensure interoperability...

Aloisius 2y ago
GitHub is subject to US law. Some European would need a law forbidding companies doing business in their country from complying with this US law for there to be any question of legality.
Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2y ago
github is microsoft therefore american

delichon 2y ago

There are few mothers of invention as fecund as a nerd who wants to watch porn. If the world is about to be destroyed it would be ideal if the problem turns out to be isomorphic with decoding a clip of people having sex.

brailsafe 2y ago
Careers and all that other crap we do are just things that get in the way sometimes. Inventions themselves are neat, saving the world is neat, but not as neat as fuckin!

devwastaken 2y ago

onlyfans is obviously doing this so people will pirate more. thats all that ever happens with these kinds of virtue takedowns. DRM is a scam, its made to convince business suits they can magically prevent copying. no one makes money telling them theyre wrong and their business model is to blame.

bcraven 2y ago
I don't follow- why would OF want people "to pirate more"? What business would want that?

__MatrixMan__ 2y ago

> One of the most widespread is Google’s Widevine and avoiding its footprint today is almost futile. I don't know about that. Brave asks me if I want to install the widevine extension and I just say no and go elsewhere. I guess it's possible that I just don't know what I'm missing, but it's been fine so far. Now that I'm aware of the circumvention effort though, I'll probably look into it.

viraptor 2y ago
You will know when you need it. You're likely not streaming videos from the usual big providers in that browser.
- azalemeth 2y ago
  I haven't ever bought DRM content, and actively delete widevine from every browser I encounter. It's amazing how often it's used for adding unique IDs, amongst other evil purposes.
  - gruez 2y ago
    >It's amazing how often it's used for adding unique IDs, amongst other evil purposes. Really? Maybe ublock catches most of the fingerprinters, but I rarely see the prompt to enable DRM.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
  That's true. I found the whole streaming thing kind of finicky back in the day so my habit is to torrent the whole thing up front so that whatever problems I might have half-way through a movie are all self inflicted and not associated somebody's downtime.

kotaKat 2y ago

The worst part of Widevine DRM in this application is that even the content models themselves are accidentally victims of using the DRM model in the first place. I've got a few contacts that I explained how Widevine "downgrading" works to and they had a sudden realization as to the source of some of their biggest complaints from some of their users... ... You see, in the Widevine dumping community, the biggest prized jewel is a "keybox" that can decode Widevine's top content - an L1 keybox. As soon as a device is compromised and its keybox is widely distributed for wider Widevine cracking, the keybox is revoked or downgraded to L3 playback at best - 480p. And the complaint I asked if they'd gotten? Poor viewing quality on all video, especially from Android device users, and especially from "lower end" Android devices. Check, check, and check. Legitimate customers end up victim to Widevine DRM "silent" failure that they then blame the content creator for, despite the content creator putting out full resolution content for everyone to watch, which leads to the content creator losing a customer that feels they've been gaslit out of possible confusion from the creator not knowing what happened.

ffsm8 2y ago
You are portraying the creator as another victim here, but they chose to use the platform using that drm - likely partially because of the promise of said drm.
- blincoln 2y ago
  If one isn't technical, DRM sounds like a great thing. "Finally, a way to keep people from getting your content without paying for it!" Of course, it doesn't, and makes the experience worse for actual customers. Seeing their work widely pirated is demoralizing enough for conventional content creators. I imagine the scale it happens at with adult material, and the intimate nature of the work magnifies that sense of being cheated dramatically for OF models.

_imnothere 2y ago

Nice try I guess. https://github.com/TPD94/CDRM-Project-2.0 https://github.com/TPD94/CDRM-Project-2.0

smartbit 2y ago
Like above mirror https://cdm-project.com/tpd94/CDRM-Project https://cdm-project.com/tpd94/CDRM-Project > This version DOES NOT come with CDM's (Content Decryption Modules) or the link to automatically download them - A simple web search should help you find what you're looking for.

like_any_other 2y ago

40 years later and we're still fighting for the right to use VCRs, despite a Supreme Court victory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive....

nadermx 2y ago
Seperate 5th circut said breaking DRM is fair use as well http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/08/08-10521-CV0.wpd.pdf http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/08/08-10521-CV0.wpd...

jerryseff 2y ago

Would be cool just to see the code written to do this!