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'''QTFairUse''' is a ] / ] program first released in November ] by ]. The program dumps the raw output of a ] ] audio stream to a file, which could bypass the ] encryption ] by ], which is used to encrypt content of music from media such as those distributed by the ], ]'s on-line music store. Once installed on a computer running Windows, QTFairUse saves the intermediate decrypted result produced by QuickTime whenever QuickTime plays a protected AAC file. Although these resulting raw AAC files were unplayable in their final form by most media players at the time of release, they represented the first attempt at circumventing Apple's ]. One of the few media players able to play those raw AAC files was ]; however, today the AAC files can be converted to any audio format. |
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QTFairUse was updated within a day of the release of iTunes to remove the newer version of the DRM. |
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Apple Computer introduced iTunes 7.0 in September ], which once again included changes intended to stop programs like ]. However, only a few days after the release of ] 7.0, the experimental version 2.3 of , an open source QTFairUse derivitive written in ], was released — which, like the original QTFairUse, dumps each track to a raw AAC file which then can be converted to any format. |
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==External links== |
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* - BBC News Website (posted ] ]) |
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* - Andrew Orlowski writing for TheRegister (posted ] ]) |
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* at engadget.com |
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