Uninstalling 11.0.6000.6324 "downgrade"

[TheCole]

I am one of those hapless users that has suffered the "upgrade" masquerading as a "downgrade" to IBX version 11.0.6000.6324. I get the "Cannot locate encrypted code chunks. It is finished" massage from Mirakagi.

No matter what I do to try to roll back to an earlier version of Windoze Medja Player, I remain stuck with the dreaded inpenetrable IBX 11.0.6000.6324.

Can anyone patiently guide me in the direction of how to uninstall IBX so that I may reinstate a more penetrable version?

[stesmi]

Go back to WMP10beta2, delete IBX folder, reindividualize and it might work. If it doesn't, join the club.

[TheCole]

Go back to WMP10beta2, delete IBX folder, reindividualize and it might work. If it doesn't, join the club.

Unfortunately I have already tried that.

I wondered if there was a registry key which Identified that you had to have 11.0.6000.6324 downgrade but needless to say it is not obvious what or where it is.

Presumably the new abundancy of FairUse4WM reflects M$'s complacency in having cracked it. That said, if there is a way of getting the content out to view it there is a way of copying the content.

[noclip]

Virtual PC image of XP SP2 with WMP 9 worked for me.

[etjr82]

Virtual PC image of XP SP2 with WMP 9 worked for me.

Same for me, works fine with Fairuse4wm and Fairusecommander

[rdn98]

I use fairuse4wm fix 2 in VMWARE with xp and wmp9. Works great.

[heyholetsgo]

Sry, but this whole "lets just use VMware" means that the industry has won!!!

If the industry forces us to upgrade (new Napster version....) we are screwed.

[noclip]

I don't disagree. Someone needs to get cracking (heh) on this version.

[BlueCop]

So are there any technical discussion forums or place where drm striping development is done?

it would be nice to look at some source or read up on how previous methods work so one could have a basis moving forward into reverse engineering the new obfuscation.

anyway i would like to try to research this a bit because i am late to windows media drm striping party and have a few files i need done.

so who are the developers? how can we contact them to offer assistance? or should one just dive into a disasm and start figuring it out on their own?

[appleoooo]

Does anyone know why it was not possible to save the old drm individulizer from microsoft(11.0.6000.7000) and delete the new and use this old one?

[stesmi]

Because the code probably expects it to be in the new format.

[Ajax_Undone]

You have to change registry keys that refer the software to it. Also the files in the DRM folder are not the only ones changed...

You will have to take a Virtual PC and step it through the upgrade process with a file watcher to spot the files as they are being changed or added. Also you will need to run a deep registry logger so you can see the keys that are changed...
Once you know what changes you can back them up and restore them.. The only problem with this is once your music store software sees that the old keys have been restored it will just reindividulize it...

JSYK Napster allows full unprotected MP3 downloads now on over 4million songs...

[Oneill5491]

Yeah, I don't believe in downgrading WMP or doing a virtual install of another OS. Until a new program is created to defeat this DRM versoin, I'm back to using TuneBite...

[Ajax_Undone]

Why even bother with the analog rout. Just buy it from a place that does not do DRM...

[noclip]

I'll be glad to buy from a store that doesn't use DRM as soon as someone shows me one that has lossless music. MusicGiants is the only choice I'm aware of.

[Ajax_Undone]

I'll be glad to buy from a store that doesn't use DRM as soon as someone shows me one that has lossless music. MusicGiants is the only choice I'm aware of.

That is beyond the point stressed here...:confused:

They are reverting to archaic analog to un DRM there music...:eek:

[TheCole]

To save me doing this, is there anyone who has identified those keys so that we can remove them?

You have to change registry keys that refer the software to it. Also the files in the DRM folder are not the only ones changed...

You will have to take a Virtual PC and step it through the upgrade process with a file watcher to spot the files as they are being changed or added. Also you will need to run a deep registry logger so you can see the keys that are changed...
Once you know what changes you can back them up and restore them.. The only problem with this is once your music store software sees that the old keys have been restored it will just reindividulize it...

JSYK Napster allows full unprotected MP3 downloads now on over 4million songs...

[TheCole]

While I certainly favour getting content from unDRM'd sources, for some material the only source is DRM'd. If there is a way of getting the content out to view/hear, then there must be a [simple] way of getting it out to an unDRM'd file. Unfortunately I don't have the time or the technical skills to start dissassembling software so I am hoping someone can post the information.

Why even bother with the analog rout. Just buy it from a place that does not do DRM...

[Ajax_Undone]

A CD does not require any of what you have just stated... Try that rout... By the way stream analysis does not require disassembly! coders for the most part do not bother with breaking algorithms unless they don't live in the US/EU/AS or any other DRM/DCMA Broken Country... (ie Antigua bay AnyDvD team)

Hackers on the other hand can and will but they already know ways of getting hold of free content and are very dishonest about things like that...

Pirates; the no nothing group of the net (ugh!) looking for a free ride using Bit-torrent and other to get there hands on free music are the resin for DRM...

Yeah it was the advent of the original idea of Napster that started the idea of protecting Music...

Early on the RIAA saw the overwhelming use of P2P apps to transmit music from computer to computer causing loss of profit (walla DRM is born)

[TheCole]

Sry, but this whole "lets just use VMware" means that the industry has won!!!

If the industry forces us to upgrade (new Napster version....) we are screwed.

Is it possible that M$ are using some kind of a rootkit to police the upgrade/downgrade to 6324?

[Ajax_Undone]

No there is no rootkit just a version checker sort of like an auto updater that you don't have control over...


PS Micro$haft is part of the industry and guess what they will always win... (The question is >>>Who has the money<<<)