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L.C.E.C. on 26 April 2009
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thetonestarr said:
L.C.E.C. said:
thetonestarr said:
That wasn't "early" iTunes, either. I feel like it was a few years before I started using iTunes and I definitely dealt with that irritating registration problem for a couple years, myself.

The trick, however, is to burn those files to a CD as an audio CD, then rip them again.

You do know, that circumvention of the DRM license was (at the time, I don't think anyone cares now), illegal? BTW, what if my PC doesn't have a CD Burner? My mom's doesn't have a CD Drive.

 

Technically it's only illegal if you distribute upon circumventing it. As long as it's only for your own personal use, it's 100% legal. They can't tell you what you can and cannot do with something in YOUR possession, when you're only using it FOR yourself.

And yes, I know.

^^^Yes, but, aah, nevermind, you get my point on that one... So what could my poor old mum do without a CD drive? She actually still has old DRM-filled songs... and a little latptop without a CD-drive. I mean sure, she could go out and buy a USB-CD-Drive, but then she's paying for something she doesn't need just to remove the DRM from her songs. (In actuality, she doesn't give a damn, but I'm sure there are people out there with this problem).