Darkknight
Aug 30 2006, 11:21 pm
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An Engadget article claiming the cracking of iTunes v6 FairPlay DRM. From the article: "[A]new app called QTFairUse6 looks like it can now be used (with some amount of difficulty) to dump iTunes version 6.0.4 - 6.0.5 files of their chastely protection." At present this is a Windows-only tool for those who are "not afraid to get [their] hands dirty with a little python.
iTunes v6 FairPlay DRM CrackedThis comes just days after a simular program was released for Windows Media Files...
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A user on the the doom9.org message boards has posted links to a program called FairUse4WM that is capable of removing Microsoft's DRM 10, which protects files offered by "Plays For Sure" compatible music stores. The program is an easy-to-use front end to an application called drmbg that strips DRM headers from "secure" WMA files. Although he apparently developed the program to allow people to play their legally purchased music on the device of their choice, the potential for abuse is fairly high
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HellesAngel
Mar 23 2008, 12:06 pm
Perhaps someone can help me - I have received a single DRM protected .m4p song which I would like to play on my Linux computer. The song is for my upcoming wedding, actually a Barry White song so not exactly commercially going to ruin anyone, and I would particularly like this version. I've looked to see if I can buy this version elsewhere and I can't, so that leaves only one option: Screw the DRM and be happy. I don't have access to any keys or whatnot on the original computer, but could get them, and have read that burning the song to a CD works well if you can play it back which so far I can't.
Given this situation how do I get to be able to play this song? Searching the 'net for this sort of thing is a painful experience in diversion and spamming. Many thanks in advance.
YorkshireLad6
Mar 23 2008, 12:19 pm
If it is for something as important (I presume) as a wedding, why not simply buy the track or CD?
HellesAngel
Mar 23 2008, 12:24 pm
I would, but there's a million different versions of this song and the last thing I want is a million CDs of this hanging around, it's for the first dance, somewhat tongue in cheek and I'll almost certainly never listen to it again... I need exactly this version.
And as a subtext the whole idea of DRM pisses me off, causing nothing but inconvenience to me and as I've posted before I buy almost all the music I listen to.
HellesAngel
Mar 24 2008, 11:56 am
So, it seems I'm buggered - first iTunes doesn't run under Linux, despite Apple ripping off a Linux version for their new OS, and secondly a DRM protected song can't be stripped of its protection by any means a mere mortal may have available. This is my first experience of iTunes and it appears to have revealed itself for the pile of shite many have described it as. The only option I have open is to find a Windows PC, pay for the song again (nothing against that, BTW), then record it onto an audio CD and then finally rip it back into a more useful format, like FLAC, which gives me a DRM free version.
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