(Of course, if you're not in the US, they've already made the choice for you. Thanks terrible international intellectual property laws!)
Until today, my experience buying #ebooks from Humble Bundle was they were always available unencumbered by #DRM. I have hundreds of #DRMFree#epubs built up over the past decade.
The #PratchettDiscworldHumbleBundle is through #Rakuten#Kobo's ebook shop, and all the books are encumbered by #Adobe and the #AdobeDigitalEdition DRM. There is zero indication that this DRM is included on the bundle page itself. and it explicitly says "Use on Any Device". On the #RakutenKobo page itself, the only indication the file has DRM is some small bottom-text that says "Download Options: EPUB 3 (Adobe DRM)".
Also, DRM Digital Editions will also "helpfully" install Norton for you as well. It's like the dogshit you just stepped in offered to stab you in the kidney, too.
This is shameful and disgusting from Humble Bundle. I know Humble Bundle got acquired years ago by IGN/Ziff Davis, but they'd avoided the levels of #enshittification to make me stop using them.
@uninick There's no way, the "installer" is only 8.8 megabytes. I'm pretty sure the "oh shit norton broke everything again and we have to purge it with fire" tool is bigger than that at this point.
Seriously, this kind of shit should be illegal and result in you being escorted out of polite society and into the goddamned ocean.
@dannotdaniel I'm taking a moral stance that this should fail because Humble Bundle has failed to properly disclose the absurd DRM on the package. With the understanding that the DRM can be stripped out with the below process, I certainly won't blame folks for getting an absurdly good price on some truly excellent literature.
Kill the Adobe DRM so you have the useful files you expect:
Load the DeDRM and Obok plugins in Calibre, and restart.
Obok adds a button to the top menu bar. Push that, and it'll read your Kobo library (including the decryption keys necessary), and offer to remove the DRM and push the new ePubs to your Calibre library.
Enjoy a refreshing drink in honor of the hours I wasted on Adobe's broken shit.