Requiem 1.8.1 removes DRM protection from iTunes 8.0.1 .m4p files

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Requiem 1.8.1 is a freeware lossless DRM removal software. It can remove DRM protection from iTunes 8.0.1 files.
Download Requiem 1.8.1

http://rapidshare.com/files/157565415/requiem_-_1.8.1.zip

Currently Requiem 1.8.1 works with Mac OS only. If you have a PC, do NOT upgrade to iTunes 8.0x. Instead, use Requiem 1.7.4.
But if you have a Mac, Requiem 1.8.1 does work with iTunes 8.0.1.

Requiem does not remove DRM from files with rental licenses... I totally understand that.

You may also have problems removing DRM from purchased (non-rental) movies. It does decrypts fine , but then you may have some problems playing your files.

On VLC it seems to play just fine, but with an extra window displaying the movie's title.

In Quicktime it is called an invalid movie file, saying an invalid sample description was found.

iTunes refuses to add it to the library, but doesn't even display an error.

On Windows XP with Media Player Classic it says something about not being able to read some of the pins on the graph, then plays the movie... upside down...

Somehow after removing DRM protection you get the broken m4p container. If you rename it from .mp4 to .m4v, it should play in QT and iTunes, though I had a movie with this problem, and it had a strange green line on the bottom when I played the decrypted version.

All 8 movies I bought from iTunes have this problem... And TV series' do not.

There might also be some problems with brightness:

Just toy around with this cool DRM remover with a couple of m4v files. It does work but I notice one thing - the DRM-free .mp4 videos are slightly brighter than the original m4v files. Why is this so?

Same for me all my decryted video (fairplay v2) are differents in brightness and contrast, more light less contrast.

That's not a bug with Requiem. The problem is that some videos contain additional chapter and thumbnail tracks, which iTunes and QuickTime only handle properly when the file has a .m4v extension, and which some other players don't know how to handle sensibly at all.