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- Matrixsjd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37firblitz, all they have to do is call Apple or send an email asking to deauthorize all the computers on their account, and then he just has to reactivate them on the one's he still has. I did this a while back with my account, and I got the 1 slot I had lost back, just thought I'd let u know :)
- omgitscolin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26That's a pretty good argument, MacManiac23, and well put. Now shut the ***** up and never comment again.
Nice trick, firblitz, and sure to be very handy. But I have a question: Once you've restored authorization, does the computer not report it back to Apple's servers? Or does it only check once, when you initially authorize? - firblitz, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28This doesn't bypass/hack/crack any DRM. Simply lets you use the music you've paid for. I have friends who messed up and sold computers that were authorized, and now they have used up a slot on iTunes because they cannot get the computer back to deauthorize it.
Just a convenience item. - omgitscolin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20If they still haven't fixed the CD burning trick, something tells me they're not gonna care about this.
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"This doesn't bypass/hack/crack any DRM. Simply lets you use the music you've paid for. I have friends who messed up and sold computers that were authorized, and now they have used up a slot on iTunes because they cannot get the computer back to deauthorize it."
iTunes lets you de-authorize all accounts once a year. All your friends have to do is de-authorize all of their accounts, and then just re-authorize on the computers they own. - pixelperfect, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10That is correct.
How do I deauthorize all of my computers?
If you have authorized five computers, a button labeled "Deauthorize All" will appear in your Account Information screen. This button will deauthorize all computers associated with your account. You can then reauthorize up to 5 computers. Note: You can only use this feature once a year. - spliffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Here are some things I find more annoying than DRM'd music:
- A scratched CD that no longer plays
- A cassette tape that gets eaten by a tape player
- A dusty, worn-out record that no longer sounds good
- Driving to the record store and dropping 20 bucks on a CD that ends having only one good song"
here's what you do
1. take care of your cd's, don't leave them on your cars floor.
2. cassettes are obsolete and always have been ***** for quality.
3. clean your records and get some proper turntable gear.
4. don't buy music that sucks. - rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You don't even have to call, you can do it from the iTunes store.
- mindsnare, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6umm as far as I was aware the DRM is for 5 concurrent authorised computers. So even if you have your 5 computers authorised, you can still bring your music to another computer, it will simply deauthorise a computer at the bottom of the pile. So wtf are you people talking about when you say you can't play your music, I've got my iTunes music on quite a few friend's computers, and I've reformatted many times, all you do is re-enter your username and password
- cplkai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You can use it a little more than once per year if you contact Apple. They did it for me after about 10 months.
- OwdenBowden, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"gay people use this *****. DRM is here for a reason, and its not so u can ***** circumvent it."
With this kind of attitude we never would have invested the light bulb. Keep living in the dark. - zjbird, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Thank you whoever A. Nonymous is on this page, seams to work with windows too :-)
- cypherz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4no, they didn't. I think you just did it wrong...
- eviltoaster2go, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7This app is great for me. I have all my music on my imac with itunes music sharing, and access it from various laptops around my house. I never really wanted to use an entire DRM slot on any computer that I only use seldomly.
Little DRM rant: Why?? The music I BUY online should offer MORE features than pirated mp3's! Thank goodness for the cd burning trick - worxman02, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You can do it on windows manually by backing up the SC info folder located here: C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataApple ComputeriTunesSC Info
- xioner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I understand the desire to combat Piracy... but the problem is that DRM is adding restrictions that were never imagined before.
Think of a CD, Tape or Record.
You can only play it on one place at once, but you can take that CD to hundreds of places and play it. My home, a friend's house, the car, the rock gym, in a portable CD player, at work... I can hand the CD to a friend and let him listen to it for a while, then he gives it back.
I would be OK with DRM if it was just trying to make digital music behave like physical music, but the problem is that they are trying to make it even more restrictive. Don't put it on more than 5 devices, you cant even loan it to someone (unless you burn a disc, but according to the RIAA that it illegal), you have to report in to a company in order to play the music you purchased.
Personally, I only buy music online if someone gives me a gift certificate. Otherwise, I will always just go to the record store and buy the CD. Then you get artwork, case, printed disc. Not to mention that there is just something special about going to the music store, especially a used store that has lots of out of print CDs.
And thats one more problem with DRM and digital music.
So many great bands are hard to find because they are out of print. If a digital distributer ever decides to drop a band, the music is gone forever and there is no legal way for people who have the music to pass it on to others who want to hear it. Think of what happened when MP3.com got bought out: thousands of legal MP3s from great bands were erased because the new owners were shifting their focus and didnt't want to maintain the download servers.
At least with CDs, if the publisher drops the band, the CD just becomes rare, it doesn't disappear entirely. - Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, there is no real way for them to prevent this, unless they simply prevent iTunes tracks from being burned to CD all together. The first thing I do with any iTunes purchased music is burn it to CD, and then re-rip it to non-DRM music. I have no intention of giving it away, but it prevents me from having to authorize/deauthorize computer everytime I want to listen to a handful of songs. As a software developer, I frequently update hardware or install different versions of an OS and its a pain especially if you forget to deauthorize a slot for your account.
- cyberscape2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It'd be nice if there were a Windows version. I've run into this a lot, since I use several computers at home and at school. But, like Matrixsjd said, you can just call Apple and have them deauthorize your systems, and then reactivate the ones you still want.
- robotsongs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@brstilson
They just updated QTFairuse. I just stripped a bunch of stuff. - Litex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I guess the CD burning "trick" works, but I have absolutely no desire to be forced to waste a bunch of CDR's and re-rip all of my purchased music as a second generation compressed audio file (or waste a ton of disk space ripping it from CD as Apple Lossless as not to incur any additional artifacting).
If I don't get the original WAV or a first generation non-DRM MP3 in the end, they're not getting my money. I don't rent music. - magical1492, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4DRM is going to be hacked. It's inevitable. Plus, this isn't within the file, this is within iTunes.
- mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Screw DRM. There's a lot of good non-DRMed music out there. For me, if it isn't free, it doesn't exist.
- totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that is pretty cool. I've hit my authorization ceiling several times already (lots of upgrading/sidegrading of computers etc.), and never remember to authorize/deauthorize.
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I just did the CD burning trick with the latest version. Plus, I think the latest iTunes update broke QTFairUse.
- Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@mindsnare
You are wrong. After multiple formats and re-installs of windows I had used up all my 5 slots. I couldn't authorize my computer without doing the "reset" that Apple offers once a year. I'll try to be more careful this time, but de-authorizing my computer is not usually at the top of my mind when I'm planning a format. Luckily I only have like 15 songs I've bought off of iTunes. - Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They can't fix the CD burning trick. In order for a CD to play on a CD player it can't have DRM... The only way to "fix" it would be to disable burning to a CD. It's too late to remove that feature, people would refuse to upgrade. The true fix is to buy CDs instead of songs off of iTunes...
- spliffy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1pfft i'm tired of people buying 128kaac DRM files.
all snootiness aside, if you have to hack the DRM why are you even buying it like that? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Firstly, you should read up on 'The Long Tail'
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html
Here are some things I find more annoying than DRM'd music:
- A scratched CD that no longer plays
- A cassette tape that gets eaten by a tape player
- A dusty, worn-out record that no longer sounds good
- Driving to the record store and dropping 20 bucks on a CD that ends having only one good song.
The intent with on-line music sales has always been to buy it and burn your own copy. Then you can do whatever you want with it, just like a regular CD. And it's attractive when you can find obscure stuff from your own home, preview every track, and it's cheaper than buying from the record store.
I have a large CD collection, so if you want to buy CDs, that's great. I still might for, say, some sure-fire classics. But I have a hard time listening to people complain about DRM when the situation with on-line music, iTunes in particular, is a far, far, better situation for music customers than any other previous hard-copy format from the 70s, 80s, or 90s.
And the kids these days, they just trade iPods regardless. - Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1First, I don't own anything with "tape" technology except for a camcorder that I will replace with an HDD model soon enough. Don't get me started on records.
Most scratched CD's can be resurfaced and made playable again.
Most big box electronic stores these days are selling CD's for around the $12-$14 mark. New releases are often cheaper then the album on iTMS. I don't buy a CD unless I hear a couple of tracks I like on the radio, or I know the band/artist and they have earned my trust over the years to offer great music on every release.
I have no problem with DRM either, just that the price of Online music is crazy compared to the value you can get when you OWN a physical CD. When iTune's albums are costing more in a virtual format compared to the same CD in a physical format, I will always buy the CD. Many artists these days are getting creative with their packaging and giving added value for buying the CD. When iTunes starts competing on price and starts offering more exclusive tracks, then it will be an attractive alternative. For now, all the iTunes music I have was obtained either from getting bonus music card's when buying stuff at a big box store, or given as gifts. - kilapril, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1thanks~
- SirBotchness, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Poorly worded.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Anything that improves fair use is good in my book .
If only someone would fix how broken itunes videos are you cannot even stream them to other computers.
Until I have the same level of freedom I have with itunes music I'll never use their video service. - rhysep, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Just thought i'd chime in and let you know that i recently maxed out on my authorized slots, for the pretty much same reasons mentioned above by everyone.
So i sent an email to the apple support and they freed them up for me to start all over again. - beers, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0dude...
IMHO all you should need to do is buy it once at itunes, and just dowload the stuff elsewhere.
It may not be perfect, but you are licensed for it. Screw that "the artist/music company wanted you to enjoy it this way" stuff. Let the license be flexible.
DRM is the biggest thing that will probably never have me buy music online. I have a mixture of windoze and linux/bsd computers and i can't be bothered with DRM.
I wish I could send my fav bands money directly, thus bypassing the record company. Also, what is the point of going to a record store? I'd end up with a restrictive license of sorts, a bunch of plastic which I'd shelf and giving the record label a good chunk of the sale price. - Smp351, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2omgitscolin they did fix the CD Burning trick to circumvent the DRM in the latest version of iTunes. I had to downoad QTFairUse to convert my music I bought into mp3's.
- time2go, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5You are smart for figuring this out....but not smart for posting this. All this does is widen the aching argument of pro DRM companies. Think about it, Apple has a hard enough time with persuading companies to release their content, you're just making it worse. Five computers is already a lot. The "user" is already in detention, let's not get expelled.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Great, thanks!
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http://engine.net - wisedude, on 10/12/2007, -22/+5OSX only? Bah, useless
- metaphysical, on 10/12/2007, -28/+6I can't say I know a single gay person who uses "this *****". Sorry, pal.
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