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iTunes v6 FairPlay DRM Cracked

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the round-and-round-they-go dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Behold... by doxology · · Score: 5, Funny

    Steve Jobs: Get these mother$@%@#$@ snakes off my mother%@$@#@@# OS!

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  2. Re:Behold... by legoburner · · Score: 4, Funny

    Programming language handles file input, processing and output. News at 11.00.

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  3. Re:Google: QTFairUse6 (no results?) by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yahoo and MSN show results. Google does not. Good to see they're doing no evil.

    Haven't you heard? Google CEO joins Apple Board.

    Google have given up on 'do no evil' in favour of joining Apple ;-)

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  4. Psst... here ya go by JazzLad · · Score: 2, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Psst... here ya go by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Funny
      Here's a link: www.google.com

      <span style='voice: Mick Dundee' >

      That's not a link, that's a link

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    2. Re:Psst... here ya go by Gareth+Williams · · Score: 2, Funny
      That's not a link, that's a link

      Ah. I see you've played linky spoony before.
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  5. Re:Uh... by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was actually referencing a popular, sarcastic photoshop (http://www.pensitoreview.com/images/art-gop-fasci sm-poster.jpg)

  6. Re:Another Stupid Headline by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 2, Funny

    and the headline never stated this. It says "iTunes v6 FairPlay DRM Cracked". Jeez, most people don't read TFA but come on, at least read TFH.

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  7. Re:Macs have this ability - via iMovie by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe it would just be easier to get another wife...

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  8. Re:Behold... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "mother$@%@#$@" is Perl, not censored English!

  9. Re:Another Stupid Headline by Grishnakh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, we Americans don't want any of that Socialist crap like they have in Europe! We're all about capitalism here, and free markets with businesses unfettered by government regulation! If the market wanted unlocked, non-crippled phones, we'd have them. But the market has decided, and it wants crippled phones!

    Pah! Those Europeans and their "free choice" crap... Next thing you know, they'll be talking about how they need more than two political parties to choose from!

  10. one off, still the same thing. by Travoltus · · Score: 2, Funny

    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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  11. Re:Uh... by fuzz6y · · Score: 3, Funny

    So that's what that whoosh sound was.

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  12. Re:Another Stupid Headline by MS-06FZ · · Score: 2, Funny
    Just watch; I'll probably have 5 replies to this very message saying this.


    this.
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  13. Re:Uh... by HeroreV · · Score: 3, Funny

    I recently heard about an amazing new concept called "link". Somehow stuff can be associated with a location, and activating this particular stuff will allow you to travel quickly to the associated location! I'm not yet sure if such a crazy idea is even possible, but it's a really exciting idea.

    http://www.pensitoreview.com/images/art-gop-fascis m-poster.jpg

  14. Re:Another Stupid Headline by HeroreV · · Score: 2, Funny

    Better yet, let's just merge all companies into one.