Remove iTunes DRM easily and quickly with iMovie HD

Fortunately, as long as you can hear the music you buy, there'll always be a simple way around the DRM, and 5thirtyone has put together this simple writeup explaining how to break iTunes DRM with a tool you've already got on your Mac: iMovie. Essentially, you load the DRM-ed file as a soundtrack in iMovie, export it as an .aiff file back into iTunes, and then convert it in iTunes back to AAC. Simple enough.
This makes you question why DRM is there in the first place. Sure, the record companies might be pushing it on Apple, but if it's this easy and simple to do, exactly what leg are they standing on to justify it in the first place?
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This DRM stuff is killing me!!!
I do not live in the US anymore so I could care less about the breaking US law and removing DRM for personal use.
DRM no DRMâ¦. I just want to be able to play my media on any platform that I choose. DRM is like going into your local stereo shop and having to purchase a DVD player for each movie studio.
So now I found a great decission - MelodyCan.com converter which helps me to resolve drm-protection problem.
As I payed for the DRM music file, why still limit?
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Is it legal to remove DRM?
Get youself Parrallels and use DRM removal software for Windows
http://undrm.info/remove-DRM-protection/
If anything, this seems like more work than the burn DRMed tracks to a CD and then rip method. It does seem puzzling that the various industries would put out DRM methods that are so easy to break (the Sony CD DRM that would crumble if you held down shift(?) when inserting the CD comes to mind) but I guess it also says a lot about end users who figure these things out in the first place.
December 11 2007 at 10:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI've never had luck with iTunes songs and iMovie HD. I had a whole movie put together using songs from my iTunes library (bought from the store) and tried to export and burn the DVD but to no avail.
It kept asking to authorise the music against the store but never successfully authorised. I then resorted to CD burn-back which meant I had to go back and re-do all the music in my iMovie!
Is it legal to tell people how to circumvent DRM?
December 11 2007 at 4:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNo. Welcome to America, land of the free.
December 11 2007 at 5:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply"Just because we all might think it is wrong doesn't give us the right to breach the agreement, because at that point you become dishonest like the guy who kicks in a door because he thinks it's wrong that you have something that he wants."
Sorry Bryan, This analogy does not work because. As of the 14th amendment corporations now have more rights than real people. The analogy is more like this: The guy kicking in the door is rich and powerful; He bought off congressmen to write laws allowing him to legally kick in your door and take what ever he wants.
Because it is legal; Is it moral or ethical? How does a good person deal with absolute corruption? Blackwater is operating legally but should they be operating at all? Companies are trampling Fair Use laws and a corrupt politic allows them to do so. We only fool our selves to think we can have better lawmakers in this system.
Are you doing good to follow and obey corrupt laws. "I was only following orders" is not too far down that path.
Or just get the track from Amazon for $0.89
December 11 2007 at 1:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyTheirs also the burn a copy of iTunes DRM music onto a CD, then rip it back to the computer without the DRM. Works for me since I was backing up all my music anyway.
December 11 2007 at 1:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIndustries like to market fictitious limits to products, and then later offer the limits removed for a higher cost. DRM is one example, unlimited broadband is another. Broadband first was always unlimited, then they introduced gig limits, say 10GB a month, and now they offer a premium unlimited product at a much higher cost than it originally was yet exactly the same thing. Sneaky and takes advantage of the unknowledgable, but it makes them a ton of cash.
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