Fairtunes, Playfair, and iTunes
Playfair and QTFairUse both provided rough applications to accomplish the task of stripping iTunes Digital Rights Management. Playfair was originally hosted at Sourceforge, but was reportedly shut down at Apple's request.
Sarovar was the next home for Playfair, but was also quickly removed at the request of Apple. From the cease and desist letter:
It was recently brought to our clients' attention that a program called
"PlayFair" had been developed, which decoded our clients' protected AAC
files, converting them to unencrypted files allowing them to be played and
distributed in an unrestricted manner. This is contrary to our clients'
terms and conditions governing availability of the service and is causing
them enormous potential loss of revenue and reputation. Not only that,
the PlayFair program is against the express provisions of our Information
Technology Act, 2000 and the Copyright Act, 1957 and you are equally
liable as accessories, being the means through which the offending program
is available for download at the Sarovar site at the following URL:
http://sarovar.org/projects/playfair/.
Update: Meanwhile, FairTunes offers the ability to decode protected into unprotected and uncompressed audio... but does not retain the unique ability of the other applications of converting from Protected AAC -> Unprotected AAC without any loss.
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01) Just drag and drop the protected song files onto a new Audio CD window and it converts them to AIFF.
02) Instead of burning the CD select "Save" and it will create a folder with all the AIFF files in it for you.
03) Re-encode them back into AAC or MP3 using iTunes.
WARNING: Both FairTunes and Toast strip all of the Tags and Album Art when you do this.
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I wonder if people really need these songs on more than 3 simultanous computers, or if this thing boils down to just not wanting any restrictions whatsoever.
SOme people not me might want to send songs to their friends. Some people not me might have more than 3 computers at home.
I wonder if people really need these songs on more than 3 simultanous computers, or if this thing boils down to just not wanting any restrictions whatsoever.
In my case I have a Rio 800 MP3 player, emphasis on the MP3!! It still works great, so until it dies there is no reason to buy an iPod, I just have to convert some of my iTunes purchases if I want to take them with me on the Rio.
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