fengtao used our news submit to tell us about a new website and software that will set your iTunes free. The software will remove the DRM from your iTunes with no quality loss! It's in beta, but if you have iTunes iinstalled on XP or 2000 you can give it a whirl for free. The download is only 213k.
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- Songs you purchase from iTunes Music Store are protected using your authorization information. Apple is using AAC files that include digital rights management (DRM) technology and any copy of iTunes (or any other appropriately QuickTime 6.2.2-savvy software) must know your authorization information to play the song. This DRM information enables Apple to implement many restrictions on how you can use songs you download.
- First, you can authorize only five Macs and PCs at a time to play a song.
- It hampers us legitimate users. If you get a new Mac or PC, you may have to deauthorize the old computer and authorize the new one. The problem occurs if your computer is stolen or destroyed, since you won't be able to deauthorize the lost copies of purchased music. If you simply replace your hard drive and restore purchased music from a backup, you must authorize your computer again, but it does take one away from your total number of authorizations.
- Second, you cannot convert your music from protected AAC to MP3, Ogg or your other favorite audio file format even the computer has already been authorized.
- Although Apple lets you burn songs to audio CD as many times as you want (you can do so only 7 times before iTunes forces you to change the playlist you're using to burn) and then re-rip your CD to an unprotected format, but we don't know what kind of quality loss you would suffer and it's a pain to do so.
- Third, when you use iTunes 4's Rendezvous sharing capabilities to share purchased music, the computers with which you're sharing must be authorized to play your purchased tracks.
- Fourth and finally, the use of AAC and digital rights management limits you to playing purchased music in iTunes 4 on a Mac or PC and iPod. There's no support for Unix, Linux and other operating system. Also left out are all non-Apple portable MP3 players, which will no doubt annoy people who chose devices other than the iPod.
Use iFree, you can remove all of the restrictions with no sound quality loss!
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Thank you so much fengtao, for this very important news. Well, this should be interesting. We all read how upset Steve Jobs got when Real enabled their music to be played on an iPod. I would have to think he will go ballistic when he sees iFree. Here's the download link and also the page with more information.
Source: iFreeSoft
