[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

I have found the following about Zune Marketplace

Songs downloaded from the Marketplace are restricted by DRM similar to yet slightly different from PlaysForSure DRM, meaning that songs purchased from PlaysForSure partners could not be playable in Zune Software or on the Zune device, although the reverse is true.

Several entities have criticized the Zune for not playing PlaysForSureContent, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Internally, Zune DRM is referred to as "9.1", differentiating itself from PlaysForSure DRM, which is version "9". While removal of PlaysForSure DRM has been facilitated with several tools, none would remove Zune DRM until July 14, 2007 when one of the tools ("FairUse4WM" [Windows Media]) was updated to support removal of the Zune DRM wrapper. As of September 6, 2007, an update from Microsoft has broken FairUse4WM once again, with the effect that anyone with the updated license cannot remove the DRM. Updating the Zune software to the most recent version (3.1 as of November 2008) will not affect previously functioning DRM components.

Is it possible to remove DRM protection with FairUse4WM or any other software?

[OrchestraAndChoir]

Has anyone gotten both Zune & FairUse4WM to work yet ? I have no problems getting WMP 9 & or 10 on my PC but it seems like Zune will only work with WMP11's latest release. Which makes it difficult to re get my WMV Licenses

[OrchestraAndChoir]

I have installed Windows Media Player 11.0.5705.5043 & IndivBox.key 11.0.5497.6285 & FairUse works fine. But when I open any version of Zune the IndivBox.key updates to the newest version no matter what I do & then FairUse stops working. I even tried copying & saving the original DRM Folder with 5043 so that I can try deleting the new DRM Folder & replacing it with the old one with Zune still running so that FairUse can work & oddly enough FairUse does still work if you simply replace folders with the right IndivBox.key version but the problem is I can not delete & replace the Keys while Zune is running & I am doing this on a newly reformatted PC with originally Windows Media Player 9 & no matter what when you load Zune it updates to the newest Key. I guess I am out of luck with this

[OrchestraAndChoir]

Zune 3.1 seems to force you to install 4.0