What is DRM? What is unprotecting songs and movies? Do you support piracy?Is it legal

Originally Posted by gaurav sharma

Huge knowledge base and very useful content
What is this DRM. what does it mean and what is its full form. What do you mean by "unprotecting" the songs?
Does this mean simple conversion of formats of sound files or something else?
Hoping to get useful information

Digital Right Management (DRM) restricts the usage of audio/video files. DRM protection was meant to stop piracy, but it poses too many restrictions and limits your Fair Use rights. By removing DRM protection (unprotecting media files) you remove any restrictions. After that you're free to listen to audio files and watch videos on any device you have.

p.s. DRM removal software is intended to make fair-use backups only. We do not encourage any pirate activity.

Is it legal to remove DRM protection?

Originally Posted by avih

Please note that while removing DRM for the sake of watching your movie on different players does fall under fair use conditions, keeping it after it expires doesn't, is illegal and is absolutely discouraged. After it expires you should delete all copies of the unprotected movie. The fact that similar/same technologies are applied for fair use situations is irrelevant.

Please keep it on the legal side. Thank you.

From Soundtaxi

Originally Posted by SoundTaxi

Technically SoundTaxi does not circumvent Microsoft's or Apple's iTunes DRM protection.

What RapidSolution Software AG, the developer of Tunebite, says about the legality of removing DRM protection with Tunebite:

Originally Posted by RapidSolution

Tunebite is technology-proof, does not bypass any digital copy protection and therefore confirms with all digital copy protection measures, provided that the user is legally entitled to listen to the music.

Tunebite Premium does not crack music files. The purpose of Tunebite is to record, for private use only, the audio and video files played by other programs and to make private copies that can be played on mobile devices not able to play copy protected files. Tunebite is offered for purchase only for private means.

RapidSolution Software AG is for the preservation of the artist’s copyright. The creation of pirate copies and transfer on third parties represents an abuse and breach against the purpose of Tunebite software. RapidSolution Software will legally pursue every known abuse or notify the lawfully owner.

Music or video files recorded with Tunebite are not to be transferred to third parties. The exchange, giving away or sale of these recordings is forbidden by the international laws of copyright and is legally pursued by the rightful owner. For the use of Tunebite by third parties the user in person will be legally pursued. RapidSolution Software AG doesn’t underwrite in case of abuse.

From MuvAudio:

Originally Posted by MuvAudio

MuvAudio does not copy music files or break any encryption. MuvAudio2 serves the exclusive purpose of recording the audio of pieces of music, movies, and/or any other items playable by Windows Media Player, owned by the user and played back for private use during the ownership of the item. Any exchange, transfer or selling of these recordings is prohibited or restricted by international copyright law.

A user of MuvAudio2, who installs this Windows Software on his PC, records music and makes it available to third parties or transfers it, in whatever form and/or for whatever purpose, commits a chargeable offense and must accept the possibility of prosecution by the aggrieved party. This analogously applies to persons, who have received pieces of music from other parties, which were recorded using MuvAudio2.

[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

i would have assumed that "undrm forums" are "illegal" and companies would try to shut down such sites.

Originally Posted by any ANONYMOUS forum user

i would have assumed that "undrm forums" are "illegal"

Please do NOT remove DRM from pirated files or rented files. And please do not distribute DRM free files. You should be safe then.

Also note that Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law, and there are different laws in other countries.

[ricg777]

clearly we have found the music we paid for is locked up by the seller or middle man so we can only access it via our mobile phone. I only paid 2 x $5 for 2 x video hits, and wanted to play them on speakers off my pc, not my headphones. Clearly we have all lost our money and learned a valuable lesson ! if that mobile phone suite is bigger than windows operating system itself "dont use it" it is not for our purposes, but for Nokia, Sony Errickson and alike, it is only designed to cheat us>

Secondly, I am amazed how resourceful many here are, and I also googled "wtf drm" and ended up doing alike "dumb things". We have all been cheated by the system, and while I spent endless hours trying to resolve this, my neighbour laughed and in 10 minutes had downloaded pirate copies from limewire? or something!! I own that music, paid $10 and the pirates of technology picked my pocket, now my neighbour is my new friend and I have the full albums and can play the music I purchased on my iPod! my ipod and the sound is 10 times better than what i paid for, to hear on my mobile with 50 cent earpods.

Finally, we got ripped off by the system, the system is wrong, liars, cheats and blaggards, we deserve better "fight back" learn, dont let this happen to you, dont give them the opportunity to cheat you. recently itunes has finally freed up their restrictive policy so you can download tunes to your pc not just your ipod, you can chose to have itunes on your mobile device, remember "use itunes" and trust no one else , the big companies are prostiutes, except with real prostitutes "when you pay, you get screwed in a nice way"

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