See also: Digital Rights Management | Apple
A proprietary DRM scheme by Apple, for iTunes. Cracked by Jon Lech Johansen (http://www.nanocrew.net/blog/).
The following applications can play these files:
- iTunes, naturally.
- VLC – version 0.7.1 or higher
- Cracked: Announcement of support (http://nanocrew.net/blog/technology/vlc071.html), DTS Coherent Acoustics library (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html), VLC CVS (http://developers.videolan.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/vlc/modules/demux/mp4/?cvsroot=VideoLAN),
- Uncracked: Announcement of support (http://nanocrew.net/blog/apple/vlcm4psupport.html), Howto (http://wiki.videolan.org/tiki-read-article.php?articleId=5).
- FAAD (http://www.audiocoding.com) – version 2 or higher
- Cracked (?): Patch for FAAD2 (http://www.nanocrew.net/vlc/faad2-2.0-drms.patch.gz).
- QTFairUse, For Windows. Deprecated. Please use VLC instead.
Links
- Playfair (http://playfair.sarovar.org) – an application to remove restrictions from iTunes DRMed AAC files.
TakeDown.NET -> “FairPlay”