FairUse4WM - a WM/DRM removal program

[where_art_thou_viodentia]

Works perfect with windows media Final
Thanks!!!
You guys are lifesavers
the chewy kind...
you know
the only good ones

[CER22]

The new fairuse program uploaded by devine is making news on aol's news page. Be careful

[ybarra]

Yeah...it made Fox News also. Time for Divine to go into hiding...

I've known about the key thing for some time now. If you have valid keys already imported into Fairuse4WM, it will still work even though you upgrade to the latest version of WMP or even upgrade to Vista (I've done both). Fairuse4WM will continue to work as long as your media doesn't get rekeyed. Divine's program apparently just imports the new keys into Fairuse4WM's database so it can continue to work as content gets rekeyed or if you d/l new content with new keys (unlike the Fox News article that says that the "newest version" of fairuse4wm has been released unless I missed version 1.4 somewhere...).

[where_art_thou_viodentia]

Actually
When you use divines program it adds an ENTIRELY NEW key into fair use
so then that does mean you need a new key dosnt it?
tell me if im wrong ybarra.
Also
I cant find the link to download FU4WM commander anywhere
I searched for it like 30 times with different names and couldnt find it in the forums
if som1 knows where it is...?

[Ajax_Undone]

Want to know how to get Fairuse4WM working for MP11 and Vista...

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=127943

[where_art_thou_viodentia]

Thank you ajax somebody PM'ed me about that.
I told em to look at divines post

[ybarra]

Actually
When you use divines program it adds an ENTIRELY NEW key into fair use
so then that does mean you need a new key dosnt it?
tell me if im wrong ybarra.
Also
I cant find the link to download FU4WM commander anywhere
I searched for it like 30 times with different names and couldnt find it in the forums
if som1 knows where it is...?

Yeah. For instance, some music services will use your BOX keys for several months so if you successfully import them into fairuse4wm before upgrading, then you can continue using fairuse4wm indefinitely regardless of whether or not you upgrade to the latest WMP or Vista (because you've already imported in the old BOX keys based on the old version). However, once your music service forces you to generate a new key (based on the new version of WMP) it will quit working. Same thing goes for buying new music from another service. This new program will extract the new keys and insert them into fairuse4wm's key file, so it should get you working with all new BOX keys.

[Ajax_Undone]

Here is a way of using napster w/o Media Player 10 or above


Past this Url into your browser after you install Napster plugin

For XP and MP10
http://sms.napster.com/client/plugin/wmp10/pane_home.html?locale=409&geoid=f4&version=11.0.5497.6285&userlocale=409

For XP/ VISTA and MP11
http://sms.napster.com/client/plugin/wmp10/pane_home.html?locale=409&geoid=f4&version=11.0.6000.6324&userlocale=409

Now these have not been tested on firefox browser just IE 6 sp2 and 7

[where_art_thou_viodentia]

can somebody PLEASE
PM me the link or post the link to Fair Use Commander
You know the program that you use to just automatically find all your DRM music and make it all clean and shiny?

[Ajax_Undone]

can somebody PLEASE
PM me the link or post the link to Fair Use Commander
You know the program that you use to just automatically find all your DRM music and make it all clean and shiny?

Check you PM:devil:

[where_art_thou_viodentia]

Ajax thank you
again
another chewy lifesaver

[where_art_thou_viodentia]

I just wanted to say
that the directions to get WMP 11 working with fair use before Divine brought out his big guns worked fine for me every time i did it.
You know the directions on the xarus page?
I dont understand what other people were doing. it seemed so straight forward.
Somebody tell me what you were doing differently? lol

[Ajax_Undone]

Your welcome...

"Even if you are the stupidest idiot you still should be able to pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the hill..."
~ AJH

Money = Broken apps...
Frustration = Apps that need broken into ...

Time + money + Frustration = Broken into apps and answers to why they fail in the first place...

DRM was a Broken App to begin with. Like most spyware it required the computer to call home to some otherwise unknown corporation... sending Info that could be gotten easily enough by even the most stupid of hackers...

And DRM like spyware Eats Up A LOT Of My Time and computer resources F***ing with it to get rid of it...

So in result DRM Techs = Spyware that infects most of the worlds population of Computers...

Don't Conform you will regret it...

And if time = Money in the real world then I have earned every piece of media I have Paid For... At leased Twice...

[where_art_thou_viodentia]

Ajax
Im with you man
i may not have done as much as you have
but ive been following this post since last year...
and yea i really do not understand how people cant follow the directions. I mean i understand that people with VISTA have problems allright but everybody with XP just follow the godsdamn directions and everything will work.

[milOtis]

For all those wondering if they made the Microsoft download in time, the final WMP and IBX versions that work with this latest 1.3v2 release are:

Windows Media Player (WMP) = 11.0.5721.5146
Individual Blackbox Key (IBX) = 11.0.6000.6324

For all those wondering about Vista...forget it. I have been using Vista Ultimate since it was released, and I am getting problems that haven't been issues since Windows 98. Vista is NOT for the power user, Vista is NOT for someone who likes to customize and exploit the potential of their PC. Right now XP is the best thing for PCs. Vista will not be stable until SP1 or SP2 is released. This is not uncommon for Microsoft...when XP was released in July/August of 2001 it was HORRIBLE, with a captital H! Vista is currently in this stage right now.

As of today, July 18, The best possible setup for FairUse4WM users is Windows XP SP2 and this new FairUse4WM 1.3v2, and WMP 11.0.5721.5146. Forget about Vista, I have converted back to XP after many months of using Vista.

::: milOtis

P.S. - If you are unsure if the download from the microsoft website is the ".5146" version that you need, just extract the EXE to a folder (its bacially just a zip file) then right-click propeties for "setup_wm.exe" and check the verison...if it is 11.0.5721.5146, then you are good to go. In fact, I just completely removed everything...WMP, Urge, even Windows MEdia Player checkbox from Control Panel/Windows Compnents, to make sure I would have a full clean install of WMP. I also deleted everything in the DRM folder under "All Users", and now everything works great all updated. I would recommend doing it that way so you don't have any possible overlapping file versions.

-edit- ADDITION:
How to check IBX version on XP:

Go to the following folder: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\DRM\
Right-click on "IndivBox.key" and click the "Version" tab
If it says "File Version: 11.0.6000.6324" you did everything right

Note: If you do not see the DRM folder, you need to click "Tools", "Folder Options", and then the "View" tab, click the "Show hidden files..." bubble, and uncheck the two "Hide..." boxes beneath it. Then click "Apply", "OK"

((FYI - To reindividualize, you dont have to go to the MS individualize site...just play a new download in WMP, it will automatically make new IBX files.))

[derregulator]

To whom it may concern,
my system: Windows XP SP2, WMP10, Napster subscriber
I have read about the problems with wmp11 and FU4.
Beneath how I´ve solved the problem.
1. Install WIN XP home and SP 2 with WMP10, no automatic updates by windows.
2. Install Fairuse4wm13 fix and Napster
3. Download a Napster Music file
4. Play the file with WMP10 (report "Aquiring license")
5. Download from
www.ezdrm.com/demos
examples free.

6. Start fairuse4wm and search for keys. In my case I´ve found 15 keys. Now you can remove DRM from all music files downloaded by Napster.
Anybody who will change the .wma format to .mp3, .ogg or .wav can download a trial version of wma advanced workshop beneath
www.chip.de/downloads/c1_downloads_13001478.html

Removalsoftware for WMP 11 Beta
www.pcwelt.de/downloads/pcwelt_tools/tools/59763

Downloadlink WMP10
http://windows-media-player-xp-10.softonic.de
Hope, i could help.

[milOtis]

I just wanted to say
that the directions to get WMP 11 working with fair use before Divine brought out his big guns worked fine for me every time i did it.
You know the directions on the xarus page?
I dont understand what other people were doing. it seemed so straight forward.
Somebody tell me what you were doing differently? lol


you mean MY directions from last november, back in 2006, that xarus copy/pasted from here to his site and took credit for? yeah, they DO work. lol

::: milOtis

[milOtis]

To whom it may concern,
my system: Windows XP SP2, WMP10, Napster subscriber
I have read about the problems with wmp11 and FU4.
Beneath how I´ve solved the problem....

hey, if you read the last page or so, you dont need to do any of that anymore....the DivineTao release of FairUse4WM 1.3v2works with WMP11 final now, so ditch all that.

[derregulator]

@milOtis,
thanks for the advice.

[bigmurph]

hey, if you read the last page or so, you dont need to do any of that anymore....the DivineTao release of FairUse4WM 1.3v2works with WMP11 final now, so ditch all that.

Problems with the new method. I am using Napster and am licensed to play files.
WMP 10 rollback (tried to rollback my WMP11 before mirakagi patch to no avail)
Latest IBX 11.0.6000.6324.

Mirakagi works "Found 7 keys in keyring":

Mirakagi starts, code version 0.9
Found 7 keys in keyring.
-----------------
Processing "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\DRM\cache\Indiv01.key"
Version: 11.0.6000.6324 ...
XML - Cert: 84 bytes, Key Storage: 3366 bytes.
DLL 1000/8dbda @ ac01000 && 8f000/1ba89 @ ac8f000
Large 1340 Small 0 Special 13,0 (0,179)
S: 3 T:3 X:51
AES: 4e 68 d7 2b c6 01 cf 5a 1e f3 3f ee 1f 73 a3 45
Decoding secondary keys
Please wait for 19587 attempts.
It is finished.

Then when I try to use Fairuse 1.3 FIX2 to recover keys this is the message I get:

Extraction in progress on "Indiv01.key" 11.0.6000.6324 -- Please wait.
Phase 0 : Blocks: 1340 Large 0 Small, Errors: 0,0 Candidates: 6,3,2
Failure - Unable to identify RC4 and AES internal keys.
Extraction in progress on "Indiv01.key" 11.0.6000.6324 -- Please wait.
Phase 0 : Blocks: 1340 Large 0 Small, Errors: 0,0 Candidates: 6,3,2
Failure - Unable to identify RC4 and AES internal keys.

Upon "Converting," this is the message I get (Zero converted):

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Music\Blackfoot - Highway Song (LP Version).wma requires a different private key.

Any ideas? I've seen a few others with problems like this - "requiring a different key"

[MoMoBird]

where can I find the new version? I checked the usual torrent sites and only see regular 1.3.

[pcdthebum]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=127943

Thanks to divine tao

[bigmurph]

where can I find the new version? I checked the usual torrent sites and only see regular 1.3.

its packaged with mirakagi zip

[milOtis]

bigmurph,

yeah, you cant just upgrade over what you got now in some cases...you have to go to control panel, remove everything from windows components as well having to do with media player and do a clean install with wmp11 final. this means you will need to UNdrm any of your current files that are protected, because you will be given new licenses when you reintall this latest WMP and napster that Fix2 DOES work with

dont update, clean it out, and install fresh. that way you are guaranteed to have not only fresh IBX licenses that the new FairUse works with, but also all correct WMP file versions of ddl's etc...

::: milOtis

[Winston Smith]

It is a shame that the friend viodentia has never came back. :(

[bigmurph]

bigmurph,

yeah, you cant just upgrade over what you got now in some cases...you have to go to control panel, remove everything from windows components as well having to do with media player and do a clean install with wmp11 final. this means you will need to UNdrm any of your current files that are protected, because you will be given new licenses when you reintall this latest WMP and napster that Fix2 DOES work with

dont update, clean it out, and install fresh. that way you are guaranteed to have not only fresh IBX licenses that the new FairUse works with, but also all correct WMP file versions of ddl's etc...

::: milOtis


hey milotis,

when i rolled back, i used one of your guides or someone elses on the Doom9 forums. I'm too lazy to search for it, but I think it was the same process you described here. Add/remove programs, then I deleted WMP11 and an additional 3-4 patches that the procedure described. I restarted many times, but I'm not sure if I did it right. At the end I went to the Napster site http://home.cfl.rr.com/privftp/?D=D and used Auto DRM-reset (which may have been stupid, but Fairuse wasn't working and my songs weren't playing either at that time-before FIX2 and mirakagi). I might try to do it again, but don't have time now. I would really like to be able to do this - and I thought I would have success like others (who are actually using WMP11 without rollback!) - without having to reformat XP. I have 1000+ songs right now and it would be a pain in the ass to go back and download them all again from Napster and then UNdrm them after a fresh install of windowsXP. ANy advice/links?

Thanks

[bigmurph]

It is a shame that the friend viodentia has never came back. :(

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[bigmurph]

bigmurph,

yeah, you cant just upgrade over what you got now in some cases...you have to go to control panel, remove everything from windows components as well having to do with media player and do a clean install with wmp11 final. this means you will need to UNdrm any of your current files that are protected, because you will be given new licenses when you reintall this latest WMP and napster that Fix2 DOES work with

dont update, clean it out, and install fresh. that way you are guaranteed to have not only fresh IBX licenses that the new FairUse works with, but also all correct WMP file versions of ddl's etc...

::: milOtis


Found the procedure saved in my favorites. It was described in the doom9 forums somewhere, too.

http://www.kensavage.com/index.php/archives/how-to-uninstall-and-rollback-windows-media-player-11/

[Winston Smith]

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Why was necessary to edit the post of Bigmurph? :confused:

Did I say something bad? :eek:

:scared:

[pcdthebum]

Why was necessary to edit the post of Bigmurph? :confused:

Did I say something bad? :eek:

:scared:

maybe it is all a conspiracy....or maybe it was better that that not be said for the protection of said person...

[Simonjp]

I just wanted to say - thank you! This is excellent.

[Termy58]

Link is dead.

[SvT]

Link is dead.

What link is Dead ???

Is this what you want ?

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=127943

[mousemurder]

EDIT: Post removed. Talking about copying Netfix (rental) movies violates forum rule 6.

[mousemurder]

EDIT: Post removed. Talking about copying Netfix (rental) movies violates forum rule 6.

sorry neuron2,
this was really in response to this thread:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=128703

about something followed in the news about this phenomina.

the thread asks about where fair use line lies.

i'll try to edit it and repost the drm specific details.

thanks,

[zyonuf79]

Do the new updates affect the use of the current working fairuse?

Specifically KB936782

[milOtis]

you are not any less secure w/o the update, so why update?

[Hercules]

I am still searching for information to add an "output" directory into the listed ones... I have no XML files associated with FairUse that I can find to edit.. and yes, I searched hidden files.

[royal]

i'm having some trouble and am hoping someone can help.

I bought a video off amazon's unbox service and used the FairUse4WM_v13Fix-2 file that was posted here. I stripped the drm just fine and moved it over to my media pc and it worked just fine. Now I also bought 2 tv shows off unbox and used the same method as above, but this time the resulting video on the other pc is green and purple. you can see everything just fine, just it has those colors. anyone know how i can fix this, as it looks like some drm? is still in there. Thanks

[Ajax_Undone]

Well if it is purple and green that means that the video is crap it was encoded by a monkey....

next time buy the dvd and rip it to Divx or X.264...

[milOtis]

IT IS A SAD DAY!

MTV has decided to go with Rhapsody instead of URGE...so come September, no more unlimited downloads for a flat fee (which is what URGE is)... :(

::: milOtis

[balazer]

Isn't Rhapsody also unlimited downloads for a flat fee?

[milOtis]

yes, i posted that while i was still downloading and installing Rhapsody...it is just as good as URGE! Unlimited downloads, still in WMA format :) Granted, the interface bites and isn't as easy to browse and find songs, but I can live with that. Fairuse4wm still works too. i was worried because when it installed it said "updating digital rights management", and i was like "Darn", but then when i downloaded a whole album, and fairuse4wm still worked, i was happy.

oh, plus...it is FREE for current Urge subscribers until 2008 :) i was paying $10 month to month, and now dont have to pay anything for 5 months :)

::: milOtis

-edit-
DOWNSIDE: files are now 160kbps downloads instead of 192kbps
and
URGE music not available for download through Rhapsody...URGE has 75% more music than Rhapsody including all the normal studio CDs, but also DJ remixes, single cd releases, artist imports, etc...Rhapsody has none of these

[derfnoslen]

Rhapsody is saving everything in Real Audio Protected, is there a way to change it to download as wma, my fairuse will not even detect these files?

[nandrews]

I have downloaded (by mistake) a number of videos which, in VLC play with loads of screen corruption and in WMP bring up a DRM message and then a webpage asking for payment to get a pwd.
Should FU4W disable this and make the video playable?
The v1.3 I just downloaded, when run on one of the videos, quickly says that I don't own rights to the video!!
Not very helpful!

I am doing it right or is there another way to overcome this block on my fun!

Thank-you
Nigel

[derfnoslen]

I have downloaded (by mistake) a number of videos which, in VLC play with loads of screen corruption and in WMP bring up a DRM message and then a webpage asking for payment to get a pwd.
Should FU4W disable this and make the video playable?
The v1.3 I just downloaded, when run on one of the videos, quickly says that I don't own rights to the video!!
Not very helpful!

I am doing it right or is there another way to overcome this block on my fun!

Thank-you
Nigel

You actually have to have the rights to view or listen to the file BEFORE you use Fairuse4WM. If it's asking for a password you may not have the rights to view that file. FU4W doesn't disable the fact that you don't have access to the file, via not paying for a subscription, etc. It just takes the drm off of it. So you will need to be able to play the video before you can even use FU4WM.

[milOtis]

Rhapsody is saving everything in Real Audio Protected, is there a way to change it to download as wma, my fairuse will not even detect these files?

yeah, in Rhapsody, just go into "Tools", "Preferences", "My Library" and select the WMA option. It is the crappy real-audio by default, just change it to WMA

::: milOtis

[banglbanglbang]

can any body help me

i been a trying 2 remove "DRM" protection

from a file and i couldn`t

the problem is i updated the old v. of wmp 10

with the latest security update ,when i tried 2 open a protected song it asked 4 the update "it`s a must u can`t play the file with out updating"

now the file work great but i can`t remove the protection from it using "FairUse4Wm 1.3 fix2"

it give me this:
c:\..........abc.wmv requires a different private key.


why is that happening....the file work fine
and i backup it`s license too in my Documents:confused::confused:

wht d i do???? 2 solve this problem

[milOtis]

you updated to a new version of media player, thus a new version of IBX...the IBX is based on your media player version, so you cannot go back an undo it anymore. you would need to redownload the file under your new updated DRM setup, then you will be able to remove DRM.

you also need to run the first step of fairuse4wm again...when it opens, click back, and recquire keys. if you are using the new fairuse4wm 1.3 fix2, then then use the secondary program to reaquire keys. you have to do that since you updated.

::: milOtis

[samukas]

Hi everyone. I have used FairUse 3/4 months ago under WinXP and the media player that came with it and everything worked OK... But now I bought a laptop with Vista and I'm confused, which version do I need to be able to remove DRM from my wmv files?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: The files play fine in windows media player (11), so I think everything is ok with the licenses... I just don't now how to get the DRM off...

Edit2: Forget it, all I had to do was reading a bit in the topics :P