How to remove DRM from Zune Marketplace music

[supeflybribri]

I now have started back up my task today. I just installed Zune software version 1 with the network connection disable so that it would not update. I currently have it online and the IBX number is now 10.0.0.3646.

My next step I guess is to install the most recent Zune software to see if that changes the IBX.

[supeflybribri]

I am wondering if I should be installing the first version of Zune v2 instead of the most recent. Then maybe updating after that. I have the latest downloaded but now I am looking for version 2.1.888.0 if anyone out there knows where I might be able to get it.

[wadster21]

Originally Posted by gab0

i have tried using Virtual Pc with a clean xp sp2 using wmp10, i applied windows installer 3.1 upgrade (necessary to setup zune 2.5 and with windows update disabled) and used the zune 2.5 setup from the net. then i disconnected the internet and tried to install zune 2.5 and a message appeared saying "an internet connection is required to complete setup"... then i connected to the internet and the setup program downloaded some updates from the net and installed, then checked and got a non-working mirakagi...


it seems M$ is winning

gab0, I went through the exact same process as you and had the exact same results. I've been asking around in some other threads if there is any other way to acquire the licenses besides installing zune and playing the file in zune. No responses yet. I hope someone cracks this soon.

[gab0]

Originally Posted by wadster21

gab0, I went through the exact same process as you and had the exact same results. I've been asking around in some other threads if there is any other way to acquire the licenses besides installing zune and playing the file in zune. No responses yet. I hope someone cracks this soon.

i think it would be better to wait until the zune 3.0 is released (next week) to see what happens with the new software...

[supeflybribri]

i have failed at every attempt to load in the latest zune software and recreate the same experience that i have on my desktop computer in which i have the latest zune 3 software and a fairuse4wm that still works

it must have had something to do with having the zune software from the beginning

so now i am thinking that i will try out the napster service

does anyone know if i download the latest napster software .. will i still be able to use fairuse4wm ??

[gab0]

i tried the same procedure as you did and had no success at all.. it seems that zune v3 installer will update the ibx to the newer version. in the past (while zune 2 was the last version) i used to strip the drm with freeme2, but after the zune 3 came out, i wasn't able to strip anything since the keys were updated as well.


it seems M$ won since zune 3 came..

[gab0]

i forgot to tell you that the other lossy DRM removal methods still are working..

[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