Apple’s announcement of the newly revamped iTunes 7 during yesterday’s “Showtime” event came with many new updates and features to both the software and the iTunes Store. One of those updates was an update to the FairPlay DRM encryption that Apple uses in the songs sold through iTunes 7, as it rendered DRM stripping software such as QTFairUse6 inoperable. One developer of the software said in a forum thread that while the previous version of QTFairUse6 was able to strip songs from iTunes 6.04 and 6.05, every version of iTunes comes with different offsets for the encryption routines and therefore each new release of iTunes needs to be reanalyzed before songs can be stripped once again.
Well, it didn’t take developers very long—just a few hours after the announcement, actually—to compile a new working version of QTFairUse6, version 2.3, that strips songs purchased through iTunes 7 of their DRM. Although the new release is a little shaky—”Experimental iTunes 7.0 support” is one of the changes in the version history—users report that it generally seems to be working.
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