DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked from GitHub(torrentfreak.com)
98 pointsby hn_acker19 hours ago10 comments
  • digianarchist18 hours ago
    Mirror https://cdm-project.com/tpd94/CDRM-Project
    • smartbit17 hours ago
      > This version DOES NOT come with CDM's (Content Decryption Modules) or the link to automatically download them
      • ThatPlayer15 hours ago
        Looks like they've since added the ability for the program to download those modules from their website automatically.
        • bcraven11 hours 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
      • khedoros117 hours ago
        Doesn't that just mean that you'd have to provide your own copy of the WideVine library, or something?
    • A4ET8a8uTh0_v218 hours ago
      Doing god's work.
  • userbinator18 hours 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.
    • bcraven11 hours ago
      I suggest Vinetrimmer and Devine as places to start looking.
  • delichon17 hours 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.
    • brailsafe16 hours 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!
  • like_any_other14 hours 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._Unive....
  • kotaKat16 hours 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.

    • ffsm88 hours 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.
      • blincoln3 hours 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.

  • __MatrixMan__17 hours 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.

    • viraptor17 hours ago
      You will know when you need it. You're likely not streaming videos from the usual big providers in that browser.
      • azalemeth16 hours 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.
        • gruez15 hours 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__13 hours 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.
  • _imnothere14 hours ago
    Nice try I guess.

    https://github.com/TPD94/CDRM-Project-2.0

    • smartbit13 hours ago
      Like above mirror 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.

  • greatgib18 hours 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...
    • Aloisius18 hours 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.

    • Am4TIfIsER0ppos18 hours ago
      github is microsoft therefore american
  • deadbabe18 hours ago
    So this is why we can’t have nice things
  • devwastaken17 hours 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.

    • bcraven11 hours ago
      I don't follow- why would OF want people "to pirate more"? What business would want that?