Crack itunes protected music (remove DRM protection)

Music was a huge part of society in the past, but with technology it is bigger than ever! The fastest, and easiest way to get music these days is via the Internet ("The Internet is a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to b!tch about movies and share pronagraphy with one another. " -- Jay and Silent Bob: Strike Back!).

Apple, Inc., Makers of the Mac/Apple computers are THE biggest online music seller. EVERYONE buys from Apple! When you buy Music in the Online Apple store, all the music that is downloaded is protected by an algorithm known as DRM. DRM prevents you from sharing your files. It pretty much forces people to buy music, instead of getting it from a friend, because DRM lock songs to one computer only.

This instructable will show you two methods of cracking and removing the DRM protection on itunes songs.

Step 1: The CD method - Intoduction

The easiest way is the CD method.
It works some times, but not all the time, depending on what version of iTunes you have.

Comments

[abadfart]

how about getting the protection off of a movie you bought off of itunes

[knexcthulu]

hey yeah ive gotten this ipod off a friend who didn't want it anymore nd he left to go to america permanently and theres tons of apps nd songs nd stuff but they need authorization but i cant get it from my friend so can anyone helpo me i rly want to get them onto my computor so i dont lose them forever and have to download them again(most were payed ones) can anyone help me?

[A good name]

I used to pirate all my music, then I started buying. Part way through they introduced DRM. I spent months trying to find a way to remove DRM, but now I'm just pirating all my music and going to concerts instead (which is how artists make more money)

[bill121]

my fair tunes doesn't work it just has an error and quits!

[DrGabriel]

It might only work with older versions of Itunes.

[mickmoffat]

 it works for me if you download switch sound file converter 2.0.3 aand convert your songs it takes the DRM!!!! off so you can share it =P

[moagnor]

iTunes has a quality at only 128, which is VERY compressed, so the quality is already very low compared to a CD. When you do this trick the sound gets even worse. Maybe you claim that you can't hear it, but try to burn, import, then burn the imported and import that again a few times over... Or just listen to a 128 quality mp3 compared to a CD...

[bishyk]

Digital copies are loseless....otherwise it'll be a failed copy and the disc burn/import is aborted. Correct me if I'm wrong but this is what I've always thought. If you put 128 bits/s in then you get that back out since the bumps on the disc represent a "digital" representation of the file. I haven't tested this since I have better things to do with my CD-R's :D

[stussy]

digital copies are lossless, but mp3 compression is lossy data compression.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3#Audio_quality

[A P3RS0N]

Simpler ways to do this: 1. Black hole it 2. convert to WAV and back

[mfmpp]

Hi All, In a little bit of a jam here. I just bought an ipod off of ebay and the seller said there would be tons of music on there, which there was, unfortunately about half of the songs are not authorized to play on my computer. I don't know if there is any way of bypassing this so as to play the songs, even if i have to convert it to another format........ any help is greatly appreciated. Thx.

[Gamer917]

i use doubletwist (google it)

[DainiusGB]

will that work with rented movies? how can i keep them?

[hernanai]

You can use DVD Shrink... but there are some movies that still won't let you... just google it and you should find it for free... muah ha ha ha ha...

[cornflaker]

Ripit4me and DVD Decrypter is the best combo (works on ANY movie, even those tricky "unrippable" ones), and then DVD Shrink or Handbrake deneping if you want to burn it back onto a DVD or encode it into a digital format (which is better because you can burn between 3 and 5 movies onto 1 DVD with almost perfect quality that will play back on computers, xbox 360's ps3's and some dvd players.)
Just google for the programs, they are all free and easy to find.

[cornflaker]

Oh yeah I forgot to mention, you simply open up Ripit4me and tell it where to rip the DVD and if you want the whole DVD, movie and menus only or just the movie, and it automatically opens up DVD Decrypter and does everything for you.(You don't have to touch one button in DVD Decrypter.) Easy.

[YoChuck]

To make back-ups of your DVDs (*disclaimer*), the best software is probably the combo of AnyDVD and CloneDVD. They work great!

[joe57005]

i like K9Copy for linux (not sure if it's cross platform), it even lets you cut out the stupid commercials and anti-piracy scare tactics they put in, or you can just copy. (granted you still have to re-encode to get a 7 gig dvd down to 4)

[monkeywithawrench]

Avex DVD Ripper Platinum is what i have. it is not free though. it is, however, 100% legal as long as you buy it. it allows you to burn dvd's to ur computer in any format! also, you can change the format of movies on ur computer already. it is totally worth and as long as you use it Enoughf, it will literally pay for it's self. it is not Piracy. in its privacy statement is states that it is not illegal!

[YoChuck]

Sounds good... but I have to say I kind of get a kick out of watching the anti-piracy scare tactics on a copied DVD! ;)

[cornflaker]

Haha I downloaded a movie one time (my uh disc was uh *scratched* ;) ) that still had that on it lol

[temp]

What do i do if i have a mac? I can't download the thing and the cd method don't work either.

[danlab]

To clarify the many people asking whether or not this is legal here you go: in article 10 of apples terms and agreements it does state that "(vii) You shall be entitled to export, burn (if applicable) or copy (if applicable) Products solely for personal, noncommercial use. " However it also states: "(x) You agree that you will not attempt to, or encourage or assist any other person to, circumvent or modify any security technology or software that is part of the Service or used to administer the Usage Rules. " So, technically it is perfectly fine to copy and burn the music to a cd etc, however it is clearly against the itunes policy to remove the copy protection from their music; which is to the best of my knowledge means it is not "Illegal" however it does give itunes the right to disable your account, prevent you from purchasing any more music from them, and possibly even prevent you from ever using Itunes again. Overall, it is not illegal for say, but it is against the wishes of Itunes, yet there is no way for Itunes to find out that you are doing this and if you are as annoyed with apple and itunes as most people are it should not concern you in the least.

[danlab]

if you want to look at the actual terms of service from itunes it is here: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/service.html

[everyones a chump]

There are actually places on the internet you can buy songs for say 10 cents each. They are legal because they are in places like Russia where it is legal to sell the songs for so low a price and it is legal to buy them here in america. Also, some of them record what you buy so that if you harddrive dies you can re-download yous songs for free, so why use itunes or any american store when you can get them better and cheaper somewhere else? Also, limewire is crap, it didn't use to be, but the government now records everything you upload, so you will get caught if you download something illegal off of limewire don't use it!

[moldybluecheese]

hey whats the name of the that store with $.10 songs?

[collard41]

you dont seriously think that that is true? there are millions of things put on limewire everyday, same with youtube. it is impossible and impractical to filter all of them.

[Derin]

try dc++ or microtorrent

[thomas the lover]

But if the gov asks you didn't no it was accessing it so its limewires fault .

[somerockenguy]

your right the goverment can track who uploads to lime wire but thay cant trace who downloads.

[Rob K]

Itunes does not have a re-download option. If you lose what you bought and did not back up, you get screwed.

[MatrixEagle15]

i know its REALLY retarded my library crashed like 5 times now and every time i loose my downloaded songs

[Gamer917]

back them up

[collard41]

does this worrk with itunes 8

[moagnor]

I bought a program called tunebite which does excatly the same. When you play the DRM-protected file the program automaticly detects it, and makes a mp4-copy in a separate folder. Tunebite can also scan your iTunes library and convert all your existing DRM-protected files. (The program is not freeware, and no, I'm not associated with the distribitor...)

[conradev]

how about iTunes 8?

[conradev]

Or Macs (sorry for double posting

[airsofter2]

umm, it didnt work with my version of itunes, which versions is it compatable w/

[airsofter2]

I have not yet gotten this yet, but I am downloading the framework for it... the sourceforge file doesnt have the right framework for it... for anyone who has trouble with this... like me here is the site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en

but thx for compiling this, im sure it will be very helpful... nice work

[Justinger]

That face is awesome. I should get one for my garden.