Right. The OP did not crack FairPlay, he simply bypassed it through a perfectly legal and allowed loophole.
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If cracking FairPlay is this easy, I'm not surprised there is so much piracy!
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Right. The OP did not crack FairPlay, he simply bypassed it through a perfectly legal and allowed loophole.
Just for the record, I am not saying you should all go and torrent your music now, what I am saying is nothing is perfect, and there are probably many simple loopholes like this for transcoding the music to get rid of the DRM.
DRM on iTunes may have been useful before but now DRM is useless and studies have shown that DRM actually does nothing to help piracy. Although, Apple does know this, thats why they also sell DRM-free music, lets just hope in a few years its all DRM-free.
DRM on iTunes may have been useful before but now DRM is useless and studies have shown that DRM actually does nothing to help piracy. Although, Apple does know this, thats why they also sell DRM-free music, lets just hope in a few years its all DRM-free.
The problem would arise if the OP tried to encourage the broken music to be pirated where as he's simply trying to use the broken music to play on his other mp3 players!
P.S.: still the OP should consider editing his post and notifying the Mods about this! Best they decide.....
P.S.: still the OP should consider editing his post and notifying the Mods about this! Best they decide.....
Yup, I can play it all on my phone, now!
Not really, I am doing nothing worse than saying "burn it to a CD and reimport it" really.
Movies are another kettle of fish. Tampering with them may come back to bite you in the south side.
You are not breaking any DRM using this method. It is still transcoding, the same exact way as burning it to CD, without the added expense of a wasted CD.
Further, neither of these methods constitute piracy--you are not stealing anything. You have purchased a license to listen to your copy of the music...You are able to do what you want with it. If there were a tool that strips the DRM from FairPlay tunes w/o transcoding loss, it's still not piracy.
Further, neither of these methods constitute piracy--you are not stealing anything. You have purchased a license to listen to your copy of the music...You are able to do what you want with it. If there were a tool that strips the DRM from FairPlay tunes w/o transcoding loss, it's still not piracy.
Movies are another kettle of fish. Tampering with them may come back to bite you in the south side.
How so?
Movie studios tend to take pirating very seriously. Apple makes the encryption were you can back a movie/TV show up, but not playable on a DVD player. I have written in and asked, only to be told, there won't be any way to put your movie on DVD any time soon. This I took for the legal reply.
All I want to do is to be able to play the half-dozen videos I've bought on iTMS on whatever computer I want and with whatever software I choose. I'm not giving any of them away.
However, why go through the bother of breaking FairPlay with all its technical and legal issues when you can buy high-quality MP3 files from the Amazon MP3 store? And the high-quality MP3's often cost way less than what Apple charges on both per-song and per-album basis.
For the iTMS movies, have ya tried that iMovie thing on that? Just import it to iMovie '08 then export it, see if that works. As long as you export it in high quality, it should still be decent.
well, unless you use these to attack someone else's ship. It is bootlegging if you distribute without permission and it's just an unknown unauthorized copy if you don't distribute.
The problem is that to make the copy you have to circumvent electronic measures to prevent unauthorized duplication, and that has become illegal a few years ago - yes, it's illegal to make any copy of a DVD, not because of the copying itself, but because you're breaking their protection scheme. The consumer got pwnd on that one.
nobody said anything about theft, except the media conglomerates that want people to think that bootlegging is a terrible thing. If they could convince everyone to call it "mental rape", "child molesting" or "crime agaist the arts", they would.
* subject to the license terms and other rules existing in the common law.
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(an equivalent law to make it illegal to circumvent DRM exist in the European Union, you just can't sing it
Now that would be breaking forum rules. But suffice to say searching sufficiently on-line you'll find that it has been well suppressed by Apple, far better than the old hacks, probably more so since this new one can do video. It's not coded to make rentals permanent, but apparently the author has reverse engineered enough that someone could do that by looking at his source (but he didn't himself in order to keep the idea that the program was just to exercise fair use rights). But a tool does exist.
so how many times do i need to buy stairway to heaven. I think I have owned it twice on vinyl, once on a 45, twice on a cassette, maybe one on 8 track (not sure) and twice digitally because I did not back it up.
Its still full-quality like this!
Nope it's not, you're loosing quite a bit (and encoding it into a format that's a couple of decades old).
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If you bought it from iTunes, they will let you download it again if you lost it.