Piracy @lemmy.ml Anonymous_TorPerson @lemmy.ml 1y ago

Why aren't there more pirated audiobooks considering how easy it is to rip them from Audible?

edit: Libation apps needs you to give it your amazon password and ID, it's foss and I trust it. (editing because seemed important)

Amazon allows you to download the book from Audible, but you need a code/password or something like that to read it. Libation can basically convert these encrypted files into decrypted mp3 files by getting this code from the website, I am pretty sure you can get it too. So, my question is, why aren't there more pirates pirating audiobooks? Why isn't every audiobook on audible available online for free?

I mean, many are, but why is it not more prevalent?

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Be the change you want to see ey?
I listen to hundreds of audiobooks and I've literally never been unable to find an audiobook I wanted to pirate. Audiobook/eBook piracy is huge.
- Where do you go for audiobooks? What player(s) do you use?
  
  Money is getting tight with some life changes and don't know that I can afford to stick with my audible subscription.
  
  Audiobookbay, and Smart Audiobook Player my friend.
  
  I use audibookbay to download, and AudiobookShelf to listen. It's an awesome combination for DRM free audiobooks
  
  MyAnonaMouse (mam) is a private tracker. You have to wait for very new popular titles but it's gotten the job done for me.
  
  If my private trackers don't have what I'm looking for, DHT search engines like btdig always have my back when it comes to audiobooks.
- Holy shit! Y'all ain't messing around!! I've been stuck on libby and considering subscribing to audible but that plan is officially scrapped.
  
  Piracy for the win!
Y'all ever hear of Libby app? It's like piracy with fewer steps.
- Love Libby, but my small town library has limited inventory. Is there a virtual library I can get a card for with a larger inventory?
  
  I too want to know. Sometimes I find a book, but it isn't available.
  
  I believe there do exist places where you can get a virtual library card without living there. New York Public Library is what comes to mind, but don't quote me on that.
  
  Chicago
  
  I'm pretty sure the state of Kentucky will let anyone get a card.
  
  The Kentucky state library will give anyone a virtual library card. I also have cards from a couple nearby counties that have cooperative agreements with my local library. Libby makes you search each of them separately.
- Being american/living there is required for that, right?
  
  No
- I like to add a step back in, where I rip the audiobook and then return the rental to the library. Others get to listen, and I have a copy for whenever I actually get around to listening to it :-)
  
  I do this with ebooks from them. Just download the epub, strip the DRM, return immediately so someone else can read it and i have my DRM-free offline copy for whenever i have time to read it.
  
  How does one rip from Libby? The analog hole?
What books are you trying to find that aren't on audio book bay?
Pretty much every book is available the day of release. Not sure what you’re talking about.
- ok sir, you don't have the right to remain silent. lemmy see the websites you use
  
  https://myanonamouse.net/
  
  You have to queue up on IRC and go through an interview process.
audiobookbay
- Also, there are a few places where you can stream them rather than downloading audio books, if you prefer.
  
  https://fmhy.net/
- Right?
If it's available digitally from one of the many libraries I belong to, that's easier. I prefer it to Audible even.

If not available by library, I can't recall the last time I wasn't able to find it through some alternative means.

Insert Pirates of the Caribbean meme about being, without doubt, the worst pirate I've ever seen.
Pirates don't use audible. More to the point you still have to buy books on audible. So no one is just automatically ripping everything
- IDK, I rip literally everything I buy on audible. I have been since they replaced RC Bray with fucking Wil Wheton for The Martian. I want the version I paid for and I'm going to keep it goddamnit!
  
  Probably a stupid question, but how do you rip the drm? I hate having to use my phone to listen to it in my car, for example, and I don't have unlimited data or an audio jack (I know, I can download the app, and have play through that, I don't want their stupid app). I want to load an mp3 on my thumb drive, and plug that into the car, and leave it in the car until I need to load a new mp3. I've done a recording, but have to let it run the length of the program, and that's just annoying.
  
  Yes, me too. Mainly because I don't want to use the audible app.
  
  But that's not the point, pirates are able to pirate every netflix show because netflix let's you access everything. This is not how audible works
- One guy buys, rips DRM, uploads to pirates. That's how almost all piracy works, someone usually had to buy a legit copy.
  
  historically, no. most pirated content comes via centralized sources. The last time I was involved in anything like this it was people at stores who could rip dvds, cds, games because they worked there and would get a kickback, that's how different groups (those words at the end of the filename) would get the relases
support authors if you like them and audiobooks are free at libraries anyway
- Know any good ways to support authors we like without having to pay to rent an audiobook?
Imagine somebody gamified it like people gamify seeding lol.

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