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Snap, Pop, Cracked! Apple Circumvents Itself
http://www.macnn.com/news/25695
Apple's iMovie can be used to strip the FairPlay digital rights management protection (DRM) on iTunes songs, according to a report by German news site Macnews.de. The site reports that Apple's own video tool can be used to create unprotected song files that be played on any computer without recompression, circumventing iTunes' DRM protection. iMovie users can use the "Share" feature of iMovie to export any imported (protected) song from the iTunes Music Store. The exported songs can either be stored in the un-protected AAC file format (used by Apple at the iTMS) or in the raw WAV file format; both of these formats are supported by iTunes.
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Hahaha. This is just as funny as Fox trying to sue itself.
_RocketGib
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independentm...
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Date: August 16, 2004 @ 8:08 PM
ahH. BS.
This is just a "scam" press release to get you to purchase/use iMovie.
They are not that clever/stupid at the same time (are they?) |
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awehr
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Date: August 16, 2004 @ 8:19 PM
imovie is free with osX.. what are you talking about. |
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Sfolivier
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Date: August 16, 2004 @ 8:49 PM
I doubt the RIAA will be pressing charges. But I also doubt that people will voluntarily upgrade to any new version of iMovie now :) |
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raoulduke1
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Date: August 17, 2004 @ 10:40 AM
HHAHAHAHA! |
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RocketGib
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Date: August 17, 2004 @ 11:31 AM
"The report notes that users can also bypass the iTunes song protections by burning a CD and then re-ripping the songs, although some loss of quality is expected during the recompression."
The quality is already lost. The M4P/AAC files are encoded in 128k format (Not 192k+) and is a joke.
It would be nice if they offered customers something worth downloading.
-Gib
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goldenpi
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Date: August 17, 2004 @ 12:31 PM
Any iTunes users here willing to confirm?
Looks like the final crack for iTunes. If this is true, its been completly broken. Temporially. It is true that if Apple were to release a new version of iMovie to fix the hole, it would not be installed. But they can easily sneak the patch in the next update to iTunes. And if that doesn't work, just make the next update a requirement to continue purchasing music. Give some excuse about 'improving the quality of our users experience.'
I find it strange that all legal music download sites use low bitrates, only 128-ish. I would have thought the extra cost to use 192 would be minimal. The hardware is in, storage is cheap, might need a bit more bandwidth, thats all. They should be able to get to 256 easily, even if the bandwidth requirements are doubled. I can only assume its a licenceing thing. |
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