I’d actually be interested in this program, but I suspect that Apple will try to defeat it
There are quite a few of those around, been for years. Im my experience, it’s more likely that Apple changes some of the internal APIs those programs use than their entire DRM scheme.
So once you found a setup that works, put it on a separate volume and boot it only when you want to rip something. And don’t update it, of course.
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Thanks for the reply – What are the VM options for Apple systems? If I want to make a VM from my current machine, can I do that?
Apple loosened their VM restrictions years ago, you can ran basically everything from 10.7 under the usual suspects, like VM Ware.
Wether or not you can turn a “real” OS X/MacOS installation in a VM, I don’t know. Haven’t had the need yet. Old OS images complete with the appropriate old iTunes (that’s usually the important part) float around at the usual places. Though you can find old iTunes versions on their own, too. Same’s true for Amazon Kindle.app, by the way. Hold on to old version, I found it works much better with regards to free books from DRM. (Though I mostly keep DRM free anyway, even Amazon has lots of those.)
I just dedicated 70 GB of my disk to keep an old version around a use that when I feel the need to strip the DRM.
Apple’s approach to DRM removal tools has always been to update Itunes so the tool doesn’t work with the newest version. Then the tool maker issues an update and the cycle repeats. But Apple generally does not disable buying content with the old version of Itunes, so as long as you don’t update itunes unless the tool also has an update, you’re all set.
You’ll only need a VM (or dual boot/second computer) if you also need an install of itunes that can talk to your IOS device, or if you need to always be running the latest MacOS (given the recent plague of buggy mac OS releases, that’s probably a bad idea).
If you’re running boot camp or a Windows VM for any reason, just use Itunes on Windows for your DRM removal needs - it’s not joined at the hip to the OS so it’s fairly trivial to keep around an older version of Itunes in Windows land.
What I need is a DRM remover for iBooks. I want any content I’ve purchased to be independent of any OS and usable offline and untraceable. When I retire, not long, I need to get away from a thoroughly crriminal family and all of their in-laws and asskissers. Goal is an asshole-free old age.
Anyone wanting to code and sell malware-free software for this has a customer waiting eagerly to pay you.
It’s not theft in the pedantic letter of the law sense.
That doesn’t make it any less unlawful.
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Isn’t that one called pirate bay?
But seriously, google (and I mean google) for Apprentice Alf and “latest version to remove DRM from iBooks is 3.3.6”
Perhaps this is of interest to you. I only purchased on book there because it wasn’t available anywhere else and I don’t plan to reread a GTD description with Things.app in my old age.
It kind of does as it turns it from a criminal offence that results in you getting prosecuted by the state into a civil offence where you only get prosecuted by the copyright holder themselves. Also the burden of proof is different, civil cases don’t have to be proven beyond reasonable doubt.
The media industry would love copyright infringement to be considered as a criminal offence because then the state would do all the enforcement work for them, whereas right now the state don’t care
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Copyright infringement is both a civil and criminal offense prosecuted at the federal level.
I guess you didn’t read the bit in my original post which said " in the UK"
Here in the UK, in general, copyright infringement is not a criminal offence
Requiem version 3.3.6 and Itunes 10.5 will do that for you just fine. Apprentice alf has all the details here. I have used Requiem to remove Ibook DRM and it works perfectly.
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