Crack and Remove Windows Media Video (WMV/ASF) and Audio (WMA) DRM License Acquistion in WMP Player with FairUse4WM 1.3 Fix-2 and Mirakagi
Users who purchased digital media such as songs, musics, videos and etc from online stores or contents providers such as AOL MusicNow, Directsong, FYE, Musicmatch Jukebox, Napster, PassAlong, MTV URGE, Wal-Mart Music Downloads, Ruckus Network, Yahoo Music and Real Rhapsody, or iTunes shop, may have to deal with license or media usage rights acquisition for the media and live with the restriction to the free and fair usage of the contents, as most digital media sold by these networks are copy-protected and tightly controlled its access by Microsoft PlayForSure or other DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Fortunately nothing is perfect. Hackers have since released FairUse4WM to crack and remove the DRM of the protected Windows Media contents. FairUse4WM is a free DRM removal utility that strips copy-protection from Windows Media video (.WMV, .ASF) and audio, song or music (.WMA) files downloaded from PlayForSure-compatible or DRM-enabled sites, including protected contents from Microsoft Zune Marketplace. With DRM component removed, the DRM-free media can be copied, shared, distributed and ported to other devices for playback without any limitations, including easily convert into MP3 files that able to play on most if not all digital media player. You can even rip the protected streaming video or audio media contents.
FairUse 4 WM has released an updated version – FairUse4WM 1.3 Fix-2 – that supports and works on Windows XP and Vista with Windows Media Player (WMP) 9, 10 and 11 version up to 11.0.6000.6324. The FairUse4WM 1.3Fix-2, released by Divine Tao on doom9 forum, also comes a tool named mirakagi which uncovers the individual keys from Microsoft’s DRM blackbox components (IBX), up to version 11.0.6000.6324, and then enter the IBX keys into the FairUse4WM blackbox-keys.txt text file.
How to Use Mirakagi and FairUse4WM 1.3 Fix-2 (FU4WM13Fix-2) Step by Step Guide
- Download mirakagi.zip (link 1, link 2, link 3, link 4 or link 5) containing mirakagi.exe and FairUse4WM.exe.
- Unpack and extract the zip file.
- Play the DRM protected content, and acquire whatever licenses or media usage rights required to play the media. FairUse4WM only authorize fair use of media, not piracy. Note that you must also individualize your system WMP first.
- Run mirakagi.exe, and click on START! to uncover the individual keys from Microsoft Windows Media Player DRM blackbox components (IBX) key and enter the IBX keys into the FairUse4WM blackbox-keys.txt text file.
You should see an output similar to this:
Mirakagi starts, code version 0.9
Found 0 keys in keyring.
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Processing "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\DRM\cache\Indiv01.key"
Version: 11.0.6000.6324 ...
XML - Cert: 84 bytes, Key Storage: 1392 bytes.
DLL 1000/8dbe2 @ ac01000 && 8f000/1bac9 @ ac8f000
Large 1341 Small 0 Special 22,0 (0,111)
S: 3 T:3 X:61
AES: e6 23 15 db d2 9c 99 73 cc 0e d1 3c 73 e8 65 87
Decoding secondary keys
Please wait for 23427 attempts.
It is finished.
P/S: Interestingly, the Chinese words literally mean See Naked/Nude Key.
- Run FairUse4Wm.exe, and then click on “Recover Keys” button on Fair Use 4 Windows Media (FairUse4WM 1.3fix-2) window.
Note: If mirakagi.exe works properly (especially in Vista and newer version of WMP) to retrieve the IBX key, you won’t see this main screen with Recovery Keys button, but will go straight to “Select files to make device independent” screen.
- Click “Start”. The output on screen should looks something like the following:
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
AES KEY: 11 f2 79 3d 50 82 a9 dd 11 19 dc c5 28 10 5a 8d
Testing 2050 possibilities for primary private key.
>> Completed. Primary and 1 secondary ECC key recovered (0 bogus).
- Click “OK” until coming back to the FU4WM main screen, then click on “Next”.
- Click on “Add Files”, and then navigate to your music album folder or video folder, and select the medias that you want to strip the DRM component so that they can playback on any device or player. To select all files, press Ctrl-A.
- Select a folder in the “Output” drop down menu where you want to put DRM-free device-independent cracked Windows Media audio or video files. You can also select <Use Same Directory> where the new media files with licenses removed will be created with [NoDRM] prefix.
- Click Next. Once done, click “Back” to crack more Windows Media Player licensed files or Finish to exit.
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April 23rd, 2008 19:40
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April 15th, 2008 18:09
i’m glad to see that DRM continues to be broken. However, your best bet is to simply not buy this crap in the first place. It’s all a big WTF and it doesn’t belong on anyone’s computer or MP3 player.
I purchased a proper media player from Cowon that supports the USB mass storage protocol. However it defaults to “MTP” mode for file transfer, meaning it is compatible with Microsoft DRM. This allows them to put the words “PlaysForSure-compatible” on the box. Don’t even try to copy files to it in this mode, because more often than not it will cause Windows explorer to crash. Also, you will not be able to copy or otherwise manipulate the files on the media player once you transfer them.
PlaysForSure and MTP are a marketing scam to trick people into accepting DRM. Since my media player does not suck, I can turn off DRM-encumbered mode and use my media player like a standard USB flash drive that also happens to play audio and video.
Avoid all Microsoft formats (WMA, WMV, WMxxx) and all Apple formats as well. DO NOT BUY A ZUNE OR AN IPOD! Make sure your media player supports “mass storage controller” or “usb mass transfer” mode before you buy it. Rip your own music from CD or download from a proper non-DRM source. You will be much better off in the long run as you won’t have to wait for someone to “unlock” your music for you.
My $0.02
March 24th, 2008 23:47
Fairuse stopped working for Ruckus files for me. I searched for a while and found this guide, seems to work pretty decently.
http://www.drguide.dyndns.org
March 21st, 2008 22:07
Hi Folks, I’ve been playing my CD’s recently bought from Amazon.com non stop. And I transfered them all to my phone in .wav format. But now, when I’m trying to transfer parts of the same songs to my phone (N81 8GB), I keep getting the ‘error’ message. Is this a media usage rights issue? What can I do? Hope you can help. Sorin
February 25th, 2008 07:51
Why do you call it “crack” when the original license is required? Then it is not cracking, just unpacking.
Its cracking if you can remove the DRM WITHOUT having the license.
January 30th, 2008 15:35
I wanna know how to do this to previously purchased content that I dont have anymore, that I want to have agian.
January 24th, 2008 06:33
unlike FairUse4wm, freeme2 works with the latest version of IBX (latest WMP upgrades)
December 18th, 2007 20:25
Ozky, smth must be wrong with your PC, Tunebite converts video files without problems. I haven’t experienced problems of any kind with the tool
December 5th, 2007 23:00
I am a Tunebite user and at some point in the past I had to uninstall/ install it and must say that when it was uninstalled didn’t leave any folders behind. I am totally happy with this tool and I am impressed by the new version.
December 4th, 2007 16:43
you are right, Ozky . Tunebite has huge memory leaks. So I stay with MelodyCan (http://www.convert-any-media.com/index.php) It can also save Youtube videos on your PC.
December 3rd, 2007 21:54
Tunebite does not work well at all.
I actually bought the damned thing, platinum version. Useless with WMV files.
Waste of good money.
I uninstalled it -it leaves a load of crap files and folders when uninstalled.
November 29th, 2007 00:36
Or you can use simply use Tunebite which is the most powerful solution with the new Tunebite 5 version. I use it with the amazon system and works like a charm
November 23rd, 2007 21:03
It`s simpler to use another prog – MelodyCan (http://www.convert-any-media.com/index.php)
It converts different audio & video file formats. Such as wma, wmv, m4v, mov, aac, ra, aa, mp4, snd, aif, m4p, rax, wav, ogg etc. Moreover MelodyCan converts audio books, any format Media Player, any format QuickTime Player, any format Rhapsody or RealPlayer supports.
Conversion speed and quality is very good. Also I noticed when playback window is partially obscured it doesn’t affect converted file. So as for me MelodyCan is a great solution to convert protected files – legally.
September 25th, 2007 02:51
[...] DRM hell situation, you may need to reset the DRM settings in WMP. Beside, sometimes when using FairUse4WM (also known as FU4WM), a tool to strip DRM component for the legal media you purchased, the following error may [...]
September 24th, 2007 08:18
O Provide interoperability for Windows Media files encontrou um problema e precisará ser fechado
sempre acontece isso
se alguem souber o por que me manda uma resposta ae caras
abração ae
September 23rd, 2007 09:58
[...] write the instructions on how to do it. I just followed the instructions. One good web site is this one. I found a mirakagi.zip using [...]
September 19th, 2007 05:28
Did not work, get error
Provide interoperability for Windows Media files has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
everytime
September 7th, 2007 18:38
This is another active link for FairUse4WM working 100%
http://www.ebayti.com/upload/file.php?file=dd9cf4554135c777a1aaf09be079db5c
Rgs.
September 4th, 2007 00:41
this is a virus. dont use it.
August 28th, 2007 23:41
It worked great for me.
August 21st, 2007 14:57
I had problems locating the mirakagi.zip file on any of the sites listed but eventually found a torrent file with it so check out your favorite bay or hunt. But beware one of the torrents I found triggered my virus software. The second one I downloaded didn’t.
August 2nd, 2007 20:35
Thanks for the tip. I have Amazon Unbox and purchased some television shows and wanted to burn a video dvd, but all they allowed was to back up a data dvd. This solved my dilemma. Great tip!!
July 25th, 2007 21:13
Hello .. it doesnt work can somebody help me
it says it has 2 keys everytime:S??
grtz
July 22nd, 2007 13:44
[...] both DRM error and FairUse4WM usage situation, we may need to re-individualize Windows Media Player by running again the WMP [...]
July 20th, 2007 00:12
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