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Report: iMovie strips FairPlay DRM from iTunes songs
updated 07:40 am EDT, Tue August 3, 2004
iMovie strips iTunes DRM
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 an open-source projected designed to convert iTunes songs into an unprotected format. 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.
Erp...
08/03, 08:12am reply
There's no way to strip the DRM from your iTMS songs in iMovie without reencoding the file. Please read the article again...
Eugene
Dedicated MacNNer
Joined: Nov 2000
Not in my iMovie...
08/03, 08:32am reply
All I get is silence in iMovie 3.03 when importing or exporting purchased tracks. What version are they using?
ethical_paul
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Mar 2002
Exaggerating a bit...
08/03, 08:39am reply
This is no different than burning and re-ripping a CD.
Importing the song into iMovie transcodes the audio to a lossless format.
Burning the song onto a CD transcodes the audio to a lossless format.
You can either keep the raw audio of the native format (creating a huge file) or re-encode the audio into mp3, aac, etc. but that causes loss of quality. This applies to both mediums and there's no way around it.
It's a tricky situation for Apple because, really, if you purchased the song, why shouldn't you be able to put it in your latest iMovie of your kids playing in the park or your own skate video or whatever? The alternative would have far more outcry by the faithful attached to it than this latest "development".
Visnaut
Senior User
Joined: Nov 2000
Re: Not in my iMovie...
08/03, 08:41am reply
> All I get is silence in iMovie 3.03 when importing or exporting purchased tracks. What version are they using?
http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
Visnaut
Senior User
Joined: Nov 2000
wheeeeee
08/03, 09:28am reply
it worked for me. now i finally have a reason to use iMovie :P
crayola
Junior Member
Joined: Jul 2003
QT....
08/03, 09:45am reply
If you are using pre 6.5 QT, this hacks will work... but not with latest version.
Sydney Tsai
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Feb 2002
Re: QT
08/03, 09:52am reply
i have QT 6.5.1 and it works fine.
crayola
Junior Member
Joined: Jul 2003
Slow News Day
08/03, 10:46am reply
It must be a slow news day for "them" to show how iMovie removes DRM. The fact is that any person that would use iMovie to strip DRM from their songs is an idiot with too much time on their hands. Stripping DRM is much easier by creating a CD and reimporting the song as a clean .mp3. And who does that? Not me or anyone else I know. It just isnt worth the time or effort.
ronjamin
Baninated
Joined: May 2002
Yawn. this is old news
08/03, 11:05am reply
see for example
http://www.osxhax.com/archives/000045.html
I can't wait for the "DUPE!" flame fest at slashdot on this non-story.
Carl
cellocgw
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: May 2003
This is news?
08/03, 11:45am reply
I have been using iMovie to convert DRM-AAC to 48k AIFF for use in FCP without first having to burn to a CD for over a year...So what?
macbarry
Junior Member
Joined: Aug 2002