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iTunes v6 FairPlay DRM Cracked
luaine writes with 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." Engadget does not provide a link to QTFairUse6, and neither will we. We've run several DRM stories recently, but it's been 19 months since Cracking iTunes' DRM with JHymn.
Any why won't you provide a link to the software?
iTunes wasn't cracked. Fairplay DRM was cracked.
yeah, i broke it too - burn to cd, rip to MP3. Done and done
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I wonder how many of the itunes fanboys (who crowed in the story about playsforsure being cracked) are going to be here hanging their heads in shame?
You don't need a special software tool if you own a Mac. This is a fairly old trick - and time consuming - but it works pretty well. If you have the license for the piece of music (if you're on one of the five computers licensed to listen to the track), you can open it without problems in iMovie, save it as an AIFF file (uncompressed audio), and then import it into iTunes as an mp3 or whatever you choose. It works pretty well - and it's a bit of a lifesaver if your wife happens to crash her Windows box on a regular basis, forcing a reformat and reinstall about once every six months.
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Here you go: http://hymn-project.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=155 3
burning to a cd and ripping dosen't quite for that..
Gone!
14.99 / month for Napster 2 Go.
.WMV files...
$15.00 one time charge for WMAConvert software..
All the unprotected MP3 files I could ever need.
Yeah, ok, so I'm listening to sound quality that's less because I went from one lossy to another. BFD - I can't hear the difference anyway.
As long as I have my Napster subscription -- I can download all the stuff I want, and I'll rely on Fair Use Copyright Law to rest my conscience. No, I don't upload or share.
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iMovie works by decompressing and recompressing the music, resulting in a loss of quality. Apparently, this new software works by extracting the compressed stream after it has been decrypted, giving it the distinct advantage of being lossless.
Of course, it doesn't do me any good, since it only works in Windows...
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Sure, everybody will link to the tool that cracks Windows Media DRM, but when it's time to crack FairPlay people start getting self-righteous.
As much as I hate DRM, by buying the music from iTunes in the first place you are clearly stating your position that you will tolerate DRM. It's like buying a Ford and ripping the Ford emblem off the car and thinking that you're "sticking it to Ford." I have news for you: Ford (Apple) is laughing all the way to the bank.
http://rapidshare.de/files/31103061/QTFairUse6-1.0 .zip.htmlWhy nobody post the link ?
Yahoo and MSN show results. Google does not. Good to see they're doing no evil.
Sort of a port of the original QTFairUse to iTunes 6 using the excellent pydbg package by Pedram Amini.
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Requirements: Python 2.4 pydbg and ctypes packages (included)
Supported iTunes versions: 6.0.4-6.0.5
Usage: 1) Start iTunes 2) Start QTFairUse6.py. 4) Play your protected track(s) in iTunes. Each track will be written into a separate dump_NN.aac file. 5) To make them playable in winamp, convert the raw streams to ADTS using FAAD: faad.exe -a output.aac dump_NN.aac
Download: http://rapidshare.de/files/31103061/QTFairUse6-1.
I think this was tried before.... and the response from Apple was that if the file was downloaded, it was paid for. So, deleting the DRM, while not in Apple's best interest, isn't exactly the same as the WMA subscription problem, where songs that are "rented" could be owned. Let's face it, if you really want something for free, there are lots of places to get it... I just don't see the point of removing the DRM from a paid for iTunes file, because FairPlay does seem pretty generous with what you are allowed to do with it.
FairPlay wasn't cracked.. this python script attaches to iTunes.exe..... reads the memory when you play a track and creates a dump for the AAC file... its a very nice scripts... but again... nothing was cracked
They wont give the link,but will give the software's name for everyone to find! Haha.
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That's the part that makes it worthless.
Music from iTunes is already compressed a fair bit. Yes, you'll lose some fidelity, but the copy to CD and re-rip has always been there if you're not too picky but seriously DRM-phobic.
But other than single-track purchasing, the whole point of the ITMS is convenience. If you want music a single click away it's there. If you want it a click away, but are willing to go through hoops to remove the DRM you kinda lost the convenience part, so what's the point?
If you wanted cheap music, at least an ablbum at a time, borrowing or buying used CDs, ripping them yourself then returning ( or re-selling ) them is an option. If you look at the price of a used CD, minus the price you get selling it back the next day, it's going to be cost competitive with ITMS purchase. Heck, splitting the price of a new album with 2 friends and you all rip it before selling it is going to be a better price. Illegal, yes, but no more so than de-DRMing
So if that's an option, why would you buy from ITMS in the first place if you're going to go through pains to de-DRM it? Poor impulse control? If you can get it for the same price ( or cheaper ) by getting the CD and ripping yourself AND less hassle than removing DRM, why not do just that?
Which is why I think any DRM removal that is more than a single click just silly.
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Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
Don't tell anyone *looks over shoulder* I found this site... you can find darn near anything here... it's called Google.
Here's a link: www.google.com
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Sure it was, it's a perfectly valid protocol implementation attack.
"Oh, sure. So you disolved the epoxy, drilled through the chip and attached a probe on the bus to read out the memory, so nothing was cracked". WTF.
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The GPL exists to protect rights; DRM exists to take them away. Duh.
Engadget had no problem posting links to the WM-DRM crack, in multiple articles, including advocating its use, showing how to use it, and urging MS to not patch the hole. Yet, now they refuse to post a link to the FairPlay crack? What's the deal?
-- "I never gave these stories much credence." - HAL 9000
Are you kidding? This isn't even comparing apples and oranges.... More like apples and starfish.
You can find the link in the comments above, but Google isn't intent on giving it out. Try searching for "QTFairUse6". Thankfully there are other search engines...
Or could it be that, the number of people willing to brake the law, and circumvent(steal) reciprocation to the artists, are those who prefer Microsoft for use then those who prefer Apple.
Could the higher percentage of people willing to use a tool to crack Windows Media DRM, over those people who prefer to use software (itunes) made by Apple, actually relate to a higher percentage of people with lower moral standards are those who prefer Windows over Apple software????
I find it an interesting corelation. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
Self proclaimed wannabe geek. You know how it is. Most of us who read this stuff probably fit in that category.
It's really awesome.
Also illegal unless you're in Russia, and if you think iTMS is ripping off the artists... oy veh.
Free download limit already reached...Rapidshare.de blows for file hosting.
http://clusty.com/search?query=QTFairUse6
/files/31103061/QTFairUse6-1.0.zip.html on rapidshare.de, but that would be wrong.
I would also provide a link to
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The best solution would be a convenient service through which I could buy the music I want unencumbered by DRM. I don't know of one.
That reminds me, I just got a refresh on eMusic, time to download some legal MP3s for 25c each.
What were you saying?
Mmmmmmm.... starfish.
Find, how? With a search engine. Just remember, Google and AOL (and others) are keeping a history of all your searches... which I'm sure the RIAA would love to subpoena at some point. Because everyone with this tool is obviously a criminal. Right? Right???
How badly can a song REALLY degrade even if you compress it with *cough* *choke* *wheeze* mp3? *gasp* (eh, not for me, thank you very much; if I go lossy I go ogg) Not much, really, actually. It's certainly tons better than copying to audio tape.
Once you do it, you lock in that DRM-free quality level forever and it never degrades again.
Of course you can use APE or FLAC and bypass the loss of quality altogether.
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Then why not sell multiband GSM phones on the Open Market(tm) and then have other carriers' customers yank the SIM card and stick it in your phone? Besides, I've read that the major nationwide GSM carriers in the United States (Cingular and T-Mobile) aren't nearly as restrictive with phone function lockdown as the CDMA carriers (Sprint and Verizon).
Which is why it's important for as many honest people as possible to download this and check it out. Then the criminals might just slip under the noise floor.
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Here's a revelation:
If you don't like reading this sort of comments, DON'T GO TO SLASHDOT, ASSHOLE!
Nobody's forcing you to post here. Get a life.
I'll feel bad buying from allofmp3.com when a company that has a deal with record label offers the same thing. Until then it is obviously morally right to buy mp3s from allofmp3.com.
And no money goes to the artists from used CD sales. The artists get screwed left and right. But you don't hear anyone arguing to ban those sales. ( Well, maybe the RIAA now and then )
But if it's morally OK to buy from allofmp3 (where the artists get nothing), then isn't it equally OK to just download music from Gnutella/Kazaa/whatever (where the artists also get nothing)?
I stopped buying iTunes music after upgrading to version 6 and finding out that jHymn no longer worked. If I can't play it in Winamp, I am not going to buy it. Once this is incorporated into jHymn, I will be able to give Apple money again. Thank you.
And, no, I can't take my money to eMusic or AllOfMp3. iTMS has artists that those two do not (and vice versa). Copyright is a temporary monopoly. If a label doesn't have a deal with a store, I can't get its stuff.
My other body is also not wearing any.
Back in 2003, Itunes music store probably WASN'T making money -- but it's no longer 2003.
There's a reason Apple won't license their DRM to other music stores -- and it's not because they lack the technical expertise to do so.
Where 'ya gonna find any honest people in the wretched hive of scum and villany that's slashdot?
You are both Cock Goblins...
Get lives.
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Both software should be linked to. It seems to me that linking is NOT a crime, but if you (Slashdot) ACT like it is (or could be) then you give fuel to the intimidation campaigns by conceding to their anti-link demands by hook or by crook.
In the UofK I can get myself most of the non chart (read non-crap) CDs for £5 in my local HMV, the fact that iTunes charges £7 for a DRMed version of the album without the little shiny jewel case seems a bit silly and I'm amazed how thick the ipod generation seems to be.
I wonder if It's possible for Microsoft to create a sort of digital signature for drivers that will verify that your CD writer is actually a CD writer, not a hard disk redirector.
So what if your favorite band is playing at an establishment that the state has deemed a bar and you're not old enough to go into a bar?
My wife's U2 iPod won't play iTunes purchased songs when the battery runs down. It takes a full re-format/re-install and frankly I'm sick of doing it for her. Apple suggested that I just purchase another iPod since her's was out of warranty. I told Apple I had a much cheaper solution that involved not purchasing from iTunes anymore. I'll have to give QTFairUse6 a try to see if that fixes the problem since my wife wasn't too keen on my first solution (see seems to think the "convenience" is worth it).
I don't see this as nearly as big an issue...you buy a song for $0.99 ... then you rip off the DRM (instead or re-ripping from CD)...net to Apple? You paid $0.99 for a song and did what you want with it.
Now mvoe to Microsoft DRM...you pay $5.99 for unlimited access to a million Napster songs. You then rip the DRM. Net to Napster? You paid $5.99 for 1,000,000 songs.
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
Actually, if you wanted to crack the drm this would be a big first step. Now you have the encrypted text (the original file) and the clear text (the AAC frames). That should make it much easier to break the encryption.
>The GPL exists to protect rights; DRM exists to take them away. Duh.
you're kidding, right?
DRM, whatever its form, exists to protect the rights of publishers. remember, the same laws that give people fair use rights also give publishers the right to profit from their creations. but people have proven conclusively that they won't honor copyright laws when it comes to music and movies, directly impinging on publishers' rights. and so the media companies keep racheting-up their technological schemes, trying to protect their publishing rights. yes, their schemes sometimes (often) encroach on our rights in the process. but, that doesn't mean that's the *intent* of DRM.
and if people treated source code the way they treated music, the GPL (which also, yes, protects publishers' rights) would be considered as quaint as the 'copyrighted' flag in MP3s - we'd all look at it and chuckle, as we copied the source for our own GPL-violating uses.
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Always a fun topic.
I always wondered what would have happen to some of the world's major religions if copyright law in its current convoluted form existed at the time of Moses. Would the Ten Commandments be copyrighted? Would Gutenberg have had to pay royalties? Would he have had to pay God? Check or money order? Would churches now have to get a volume license to relate the tale of Sodom and Gomorrah? Would Cain and Abel have gotten 'points'? Gross or net? And when Cain killed Abel, who bought up his rights from his estate?
If the first letter of Paul to the Ephesians was read out loud to the Ephesians by someone other than Paul without Paul consenting in writing, could Paul sue for damages? Or does this qualify as fair use?
If God liked DRM, would the first Bibles be like a big sheaf of blank pages, and when you pay your licensing fee, the words magically appear (only partially illegible due to compression loss)? Or would he just temporarily blind you every time you looked at it until you paid.
Along the same lines, you know how people like to quote scripture? Would God give you a case of laryngitis if you tried to quote scripture without accepting a EULA first? Does the fact that God is omniscient and knows what you're thinking constitute a 'rootkit'?
DRM, always a fun topic.
Actually, I love reading this sort of comments. Sorry to disappoint you.
Even if you can't play them now-- sometime- probably within 24 months, you will be able to strip them of DRM.
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Fair use doesn't mean that you can violate the DMCA in order to copy a file for personal use. Bad analogy: the fact that you own a copy of a CD doesn't make it legal for you to "borrow" someone's CD drive in order to listen to it, even though fair use would allow you to play it on you own computer. Similarly, although fair use allows you to copy an DRM'ed song in order to listen to it, if you can somehow do that legally, it does not give you permission to violate a law in order to do so. Decrypting DRM'ed stuff is illegal, plain and simple. The DMCA is a LAW, same as copyright laws. What you're saying is "what I'm doing is legal, because although I am violating one law, I am not violating another."
:-).
On the other hand, if your moral code doesn't coincide with the legal system and you don't have moral qualms breaking the law, be my guest. But don't think that your justifications have any legal meaning. When the DRM Gestapo come to your door to arrest you, you will have nothing to say.
Disclaimer: I watch DVDs on my Linux machine, which is just as illegal
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I was desperate to get some German music for my mom's digital frame. I downloaded two cd's from iTunes MS and then remembered they can't be played on the frame because of the DRM. So, i did some experimenting. I opened the files in a program called Sound Studio. Saved them as an AAC file. Imported them back into iTunes. Converted them to MP3, and wallah! An MP3 that is unencoded. I'm not really sure what it did to the quality, and for my purpose it didn't really matter as they will only be played on the digital frame.
Hang on - I'm wrong - I found it:
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93
"Make sure you deauthorize your computer before you upgrade your RAM, hard disk or other system components. If you do not deauthorize your computer before you upgrade these components, one computer may use multiple authorizations. If you find you have reached 5 authorizations due to system upgrades, you can reset your authorization count by clicking Deauthorize All in the Account Information screen. Note: You may only use this feature once per year. The Deauthorize All button will not appear if you have fewer than 5 authorized computers or if you have used this option within the last 12 months."
So yes you're totally right. Still to keep files from flying all over the P2P I can get the gist of it. I've never had to juggle that many pc's myself, and I've got quite a few (but only 2 are my workhorses).
Why would honest people want to help criminals?
My solution to DRM is simple: Don't buy DRM'd products. Buy the CD and rip it. You can usually get CD's on the cheap off Amazon.com. This doesn't work for the super-duper new music that's coming out, but there are a lot of great old CD's too. However, the chances are good enough that if a CD isn't cheap on Amazon then it's probably being played on the radio, and if it's being played on the radio I never feel bad about time-shifting my listening experience courtesy of P2P or friendly sharing.
"Of course if record companies are getting paid, but artists still getting screwed [slashdot.org], it's "OK" to use iTunes too?"
Slippery slope. Getting $0.10 a track is infinitely better than getting zero. Even income of a couple of hundred bucks a month from online sales can make a difference when it's time to pay the rent.
Perhaps a couple of hundred bucks a month might not make a difference to you. Or, perhaps you are of the belief that your favorite artists are wealthy enough that they don't need the extra couple of hundred bucks. But those are dangerous assumptions to make, particularly in regard to somebody else's livelihood.
Pirate if you want -- but don't assume that the artist won't miss the money.
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Ta da
The GPL protects the rights of authors by abridging the rights of others. You don't like it? Fine. Just don't use it.
DRM protects the rights of authors by abridging the rights of others. You don't like it? OMIGOD WE MUST CR4CXOR1 IT IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE FREEDOM BLEEEEAAUAAAUUGH!
Of course if record companies are getting paid, but artists still getting screwed, it's "OK" to use iTunes too?
:)
There's always eMusic.
get [their] hands dirty with a little python
Am I the only one who was thinking something entirely unrelated to a programming language?
Interesting discussion. It had crossed my mind that you could pull the data straight off the iTunes visualizer, but a quick peek at the relevant docs shows that whilst you *can* get the data, it's downrezzed to 8 bits. OTOH, it does also pass a 512 point FFT to ya ... Heh. There's always a catch.
Seriously, just burn the playlist to a CD. It's legal and easy.
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it's a bit of a lifesaver if your wife happens to crash her Windows box on a regular basis, forcing a reformat and reinstall about once every six months.
Do that before you format.
In the event of a catastrophic crash (well, five catastrophic crashes) then log into the Store and click Deauthorize All.
And next time, come up with a better excuse. Like, "if your wife happens to own a non-iPod music player" or "your wife wants to play her music on her Linux box."
The US free market: two halves of a government-granted duopoly are free to set the market price.
Actually, both are there to protect the rights of the content creators/publishers. The GPL protects certain rights by a license (the right to demand that your code always be freely available). DRM does it by technology (the right to keep people from making your product freely available).
Only public domains gives away all rights.
Stop! Dremel time!
DRM is dumb. And paying for digital bits is a waste of money. (No matter what the RIAA shills in the thread have to say.)
But if you bought the thing on iTunes, you knew it was a DRM-encumbered low-bit-rate POS when you got it. Don't whine to me now about how the DRM sucks. If you feel that way, then you should have bought the fucking CD. At least you get a nice case with artwork to put on your shelf. (Of course, if it is a DRM-CD, then fuck 'em. Download it from allofmp3.com.)
Without meaning to sound anal, I do not think that the term "cracked" is adequate in this case: The encryption cyphers have not been compromised or factored.
This Python program fishes for frames in iTunes memory after the decryption and before the decoding process and writes them out to a file. This does yield an unencoded AAC file in the end, but the process is real-time and therefore very time-consuming for large libraries.
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Fair use allows me to use content that I purchased.
I don't distribute.
I don't download via torrent.
I pay for the content. And I should be able to use it where I please.
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"If you look at the price of a used CD, minus the price you get selling it back the next day, it's going to be cost competitive with ITMS purchase."
The price of a used CD on Amazon is less than the price of buying crappy, DRM, lossy music on iTMS.
And I belong to Sony/BMG where I'll get new albums for $7.50 (once a month they go on sale).
So iTMS is for the same people who buy those small dogs because Paris Hilton owns one.
Yes, well, just because you think it should be legal doesn't mean it is. You might be doing something justifiable, and I have no problem with you doing it, but don't think that "fair use" gives you the right to do it. "Fair use" gives you the right to legally use content that you have purchased, but it doesn't override the fact that bypassing DRM is illegal. DMCA is a Very Bad Law BECAUSE it effectively eliminates the concept of Fair Use by making many fair uses illegal. Fair Use is not some kind of inalienable right. It is not as if the constitution says "Congress shall not make any law that prevents consumers from doing what they please with their own music, as long as they don't distribute it."
Of course, if you mean "fair use" in the sense of "this is what I think I should be able to do", then of course it's fair use. But then "fair use" becomes synonymous with "conscience": My conscience allows me to use content that I purchased. Fair use, in the legal sense, does not allow you to do anything forbidden by the DMCA.
One of the big problems in America is that the general public fails to see how bad of a law the DMCA is.
I wrote a script in Perl to automate the process. It includes tagging the DRM-free files with the same tags as the original. This includes artwork, lyrics, etc. Download the script here
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