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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.


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  1. Eugene

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    08/03, 08:12am | report spam | Reply |

    Erp...

    There's no way to strip the DRM from your iTMS songs in iMovie without reencoding the file. Please read the article again...

  1. ethical_paul

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    08/03, 08:32am | report spam | Reply |

    Not in my iMovie...

    All I get is silence in iMovie 3.03 when importing or exporting purchased tracks. What version are they using?

  1. Visnaut

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    08/03, 08:39am | report spam | Reply |

    Exaggerating a bit...

    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".

  1. Visnaut

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    08/03, 08:41am | report spam | Reply |

    Re: Not in my iMovie...

    > 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/

  1. crayola

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    08/03, 09:28am | report spam | Reply |

    wheeeeee

    it worked for me. now i finally have a reason to use iMovie :P

  1. Sydney Tsai

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    08/03, 09:45am | report spam | Reply |

    QT....

    If you are using pre 6.5 QT, this hacks will work... but not with latest version.

  1. crayola

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    08/03, 09:52am | report spam | Reply |

    Re: QT

    i have QT 6.5.1 and it works fine.

  1. ronjamin

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    08/03, 10:46am | report spam | Reply |

    Slow News Day

    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.

  1. cellocgw

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    08/03, 11:05am | report spam | Reply |

    Yawn. this is old news

    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

  1. macbarry

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    08/03, 11:45am | report spam | Reply |

    This is news?

    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?

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