On: Knowing I’m Being Tricked Is Barely Enough

[crankylinuxuser]

Because this directly applies to audible and their DRM bullshit:

The following one-liner converts their audiofile format to a equivalent mp4. Consider this a public service, and a way to make content you legally purchased yours.

ffmpeg -activation_bytes 1CEB00DA -i test.aax -vn -c:a copy output.mp4

[jimktrains2 → crankylinuxuser]

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number