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blech:

MacNN pikcs up on a MacNews.de article, which claims that iMovie's "Share" feature can be used to export unprotected AACs and WAVs from DRMed AACs.

I haven't bought anything from the iTMS yet, so I can't test this, but it seems like a bit of a blunder if it's true.

[ 0 days, 4 hours later ]

[Afternoon] I see Sven has linked to us.

Yes, you can deDRM tracks by ripping to a CD or via Audio Hijack. However, both of those require decompression and recompression.

The MacNN article explitly says, however, that the iMovie hack does not:

Apple's own video tool can be used to create unprotected song files that be played on any computer without recompression

Now, we've been unable to replicate this, and I can't read German well enough to figure out what you have to go through.

I suspect it's to do with using the Advanced Settings method of Share, but jerakeen couldn't get that to do anything.

Sven's right that if you have to recompress, then it's no big deal. If you don't, though, this is something new.

[ 0 days, 3 hours later ]

[Later still] Sven's emailled us with translations from the German site, and it looks like iMovie decompresses. So, less than useful then. Oh well.

We hate you all. Yes, especially you. Sod off and DIE