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September 15, 2006
iTunes 7 DRM: cracked
Authored by Derik DeLong at 10:38 AM
Category | Software » iTunes
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Apple apparently didn’t switch up the DRM too much between iTunes 6 and 7. QTFairUse6 was updated to version 2.3 and now includes facilities to strip the DRM off iTunes 7 media.
I personally don’t feel a need to do this. Firstly, I only download free stuff on a regular basis. Secondly, I don’t find the iTunes DRM restrictive. Have any of you held off on upgrading for this?
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I buy a lot of songs from the iTunes Store and I've never felt the need to strip the DRM from my music library. But, I do kind of like knowing this technology is out there. It provides a safety net should Apple ever decide to stop selling songs or radically change their terms.
Posted by: Fletcher Sandbeck | September 15, 2006 08:41 AM
I don't get people's problems with Apple's DRM. I burn all of my purchased music to audio cd's to back them up. Then you can import them from the cd's into whatever format you want. Use a cd-rw over & over if you don't backup to cd-r.
Posted by: dolphinbuddy | September 15, 2006 09:05 AM
I've not had a problem so far but this is not to say that I don't worry about it in the future. Apple is on a roll these days with great computers and music players but this doesn't mean that this will always be the case and, having switched to the Mac for a better computing experience a few years back, I'd have no problem switching back to Windows or to another OS if they become better than the Mac platform in the future (I'm somewhat loyal but not that much). Given this it is good to know that if I do decide to switch again that I won't have to lose my music collection bought from the iTMS/iTS. This may also prove useful for playing tracks on devices that currently don't support the FairPlay DRM and which Apple does not provide a suitable competitor, such as for streaming music around your home using something like Sonet.
Posted by: Kelmon | September 16, 2006 03:04 AM