Neat (new?) iTunes Feature

[Stan4dSteph]

I like downloading the free singles. New ones up today!

[MouseWife]

I like to do that, too, Stan4dSteph, when I remember.

Isn't there also something about how many times you can copy it? I mean, like transfer it to a cd or something like that? That is what I understood.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by MouseWife

I like to do that, too, Stan4dSteph, when I remember.

Isn't there also something about how many times you can copy it? I mean, like transfer it to a cd or something like that? That is what I understood.

From the file you download through iTunes, you can only burn it a limited number of times (5, I believe). However, there's a way around it. Once you burn it, it's just an audio CD, no different than any other audio CD. If you take the burnt CD, and "rip" the file from there back to your computer, you now have a completely unprotected file with none of the security data that Apple encodes in the file downloaded from iTunes. It's an easy, but very time consuming, way around a lot of the "protections".

[MouseWife]

That is what I thought {hoped}...but what about that encryption?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by MouseWife

That is what I thought {hoped}...but what about that encryption?

Once you burn it, then re-rip it, there is no encryption. It's just an audio file, no different than if you had purchased the CD and ripped it.