Nokia Comes With Music comes with DRM and gets cracked

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It’s the same old story, content providers try to prevent piracy by wrapping media in DRM. Hackers crack the DRM. We have seen it with protected WMA, iTunes AAC, DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray and so on. Next to lay claim to the dubious honor of being “crackable” is the DRM that encases tracks downloaded from Nokia Comes with Music service. Nokia Comes with Music allows owners of supported Nokia phones to download an unlimited number of tracks during the first year of service. DRM is the controlling force that limits these tracks to one designated mobile device and one PC. For a mere €20 / £17.50 / $26 USD, an owner of a Nokia Comes with Music phone can use the DRM-removal tool Tunebite to re-encode his or her downloaded music tracks into an unencrypted format in only a matter of minutes. Nokia has not responded nor indicated what measures it will presumably take to prevent future DRM removal.

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13 Comments
  • Al Pavangkanan

    So you have to buy an application to pirate music? Who is the real pirate here?

    What’s worse is that this is a PC application. If these guys were smart, they’d make it a phone application.

  • http://unwiredview.com Staska

    Actually it seems that the this DRM removal application has been around for a while and is used to break Microsoft’s PlaysForSure DRM.
    Since Nokia uses that, people just now found out that they can use this app to crack NCM.

  • rosegold

    Isn’t gonna be funny when they release a keygen/crack for that app… If it aint already out lol

  • http://www.videos4blackberry.info Bla1ze

    @rosegold

    You live in a cave? lol

    I cannot be the only one that is in NO way surprised by this TuneBite is ollllld news and yeah, a quick torrent search will help ya out with that being cracked as well :P

  • Adam

    The music companies will never learn. Anything that is encrypted, will also have a way to be decrypted.

  • DanT

    What’s the point in using that when you can download any piece of music without DRM in 1 minute on internet? If you gonna steal it anyway, there’s no point in buying a $20 application first. Duhhhh?!?

  • IAmTheWalrus

    TuneBite does not “crack” the DRM. Rather, it plays the encrypted DRM files using their native player and then captures the analog output that would transmitted to headphones, etc.

    While I suppose someone could try and whip the DMCA out on this software, the capture of analog output on televisions, radios, computers, etc has been affirmed as justifiable for archival purposes by personal users and there’s not much Nokia can do to prevent that short of requiring proprietary sound hardware to play and listen to their media.

    Quite honestly though, Tunebite’s been around for years – If were that much of a threat, the record labels, Apple and others companies with a lot at stake would of stepped in long ago.

  • Bonder

    This Nokia ‘Comes with Music’ allows you to download tracks only in your first year, but about after this year? What should I do with my music? Should I give up of it? Nope cause there are many ways of removing its copy protection, And regarding tunebite, it doesn’t crack the protection it rerecords the original file legally and it frees the files of DRM so that I can transfer my music on other players, like my mp3 player.
    And if this Tunebite was a pirated soft why does it have so many awards at music magazines ???

  • http://guidechart.com/cat/video/remove-drm-video/ DRM Buster

    There goes another million-dollar businessplan :s … Just when many retailers seem to come to their senses and abandon distributing DRM protected content, Nokia decides to jump on the wagon – serves them right ! :D

  • head

    if tunebite is playing and then recording an analogue signal, does it mean that the resulting recording will be of an inferior quality?

  • Bonder

    Nope, it doesn’t affect the files’ quality and if so it isn’t perceptible, it’s a small lost. I use this tunebite and works nice so far. Of course I think it depends on the original files’ quality too, cause if it’s a file which has bad quality then the converted file is a mess

  • mikesurfer

    can U help me more?, about that ways to remove copy files, maybe data or links…and also i am very interested in a itunes cracker….can U help me too?

  • http://google-it.com out_of_no_where

    Oh well. TuneClone is the best at this job :p

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