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September 13, 2006

iTunes 7 DRM Stripped

Engadget reports:

At some time around 10:22AM Pacific Standard Time, by our estimations, Steve Jobs introduced to the world iTunes 7, Apple's latest and greatest hardware / software / service glue for their best-selling online media initiative. Everyone cheered its album art functions, enhanced video resolution, and movie downloads; a few of us, though, silently winced on behalf of QTFairUse / myFairTunes6 users everywhere, who'd been successfully stripping the DRM off their Apple FairPlay protected files for a few weeks now. Then, at 6:23PM PST, QTFairUse version 2.3 came out, which added (beta) iTunes 7 support. By our approximation that means it took Igor (no, not Iger) about 8 hours and 1 minute to crack the latest major iTunes update.
Jeez Igor. It's polite to wait at least a day!

Posted at 11:50 AM




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i have absolutly no idea what any of that means. is my ipod going to blow up?

Posted by: Jesus Christ at 09/13/06 12:11 PM | Reply
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i have absolutly no idea what any of that means. is my ipod going to blow up?

Posted by: Jesus Christ at 09/13/06 12:12 PM | Reply
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Mine just did.

Posted by: Land of the Bat at 09/13/06 12:22 PM | Reply
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I also have no clue what that means

Posted by: Dagmar at 09/13/06 12:47 PM | Reply
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It basically means it took this guy less than 1 day to write a program that removes the Digital Right Management restrictions Apple has put on music you buy at the iTunes Store. Very impressive.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay

Posted by: SW at 09/13/06 1:24 PM | Reply
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It basically means it took this guy less than 1 day to write a program that removes the Digital Right Management restrictions Apple has put on music you buy at the iTunes Store. Very impressive.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay

Posted by: SW at 09/13/06 1:26 PM | Reply
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Basically, the program makes it so you can have unlimited usage of songs and you buy from itunes, beyond the set rights that you are usually entitled.
for instance, songs you buy can now work in any audio player, vs. just the iPod.

Posted by: strobie at 09/13/06 1:47 PM | Reply
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You don't know what this means? WTF? Cory Doctorow is somewhere reading this shedding rivers of tears.

Posted by: jerry yeti at 09/13/06 2:13 PM | Reply
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Ha! (I'm beginning to think that both Cory Doctorow and Xeni Jardin are equally annoying.)

Posted by: loper at 09/14/06 11:04 AM | Reply
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