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  1. 08-31-2010, 02:13 PM #1
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    How to Napster Copy Protection?

    How to engrish? The title should read "How to remove Napster copy protection?"



    Several years ago I purchased a few albums from Best Buy/Napster, back when they were using DRM (and before places like amazon pushed drm-free mp3s), and distributing albums in *.WMA format. Everything has been going fine, but today I got an email saying they are shutting down their verification servers, and that the albums I bought will be unplayable. They recommend I burn the songs to a CD before I lose my rights to the music I bought..

    I don't own a CD burner.

    Since removing DRM is apparently legal now, does anyone know an easy way to strip this DRM from these WMA files? I tried Google, but it seems as if I'd be likely to get a torjan/virus/scam for my efforts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kerzain View Post
    I don't own a CD burner.
    How did this happen? No CD/DVD RW device at all?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Telefrog View Post
    How did this happen? No CD/DVD RW device at all?
    I don't own one either since my last Plextor finally gave up the ghost. The advent of cheap, high-capacity flash drives has made optical media feel a little superfluous.
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  5. 08-31-2010, 02:27 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by kerzain View Post
    Since removing DRM is apparently legal now,
    This is not correct, the DMCA remains in effect.
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  6. 08-31-2010, 02:29 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by stusser View Post
    This is not correct, the DMCA remains in effect.
    Ah, I can't keep track of all this gobbledegook.

    Quote Originally Posted by Telefrog
    How did this happen? No CD/DVD RW device at all?
    I own a couple systems with CD/DVD drives that I bought about five years ago, but they only play and rip, they don't burn CDs.
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  7. 08-31-2010, 02:35 PM #7
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    I suggest you just get the songs from the standard pirate sites. Don't even try to strip the DRM. Everything that came up on google was either trying to infect me with a virus or three years old.
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  8. 08-31-2010, 02:36 PM #8
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    Thanks for the help.
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  9. 08-31-2010, 02:40 PM #9
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    Yeah, what Stusser said. You paid for them. They are yours.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jellyfish View Post
    Yeah, what Stusser said. You paid for them. They are yours.
    Except for that part where dodging DRM is violating DMCA and is still illegal. I can understand the moral argument but the legal aspect is fairly clear. Downloading DRM free versions of the songs would be illegal.
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  11. 08-31-2010, 02:47 PM #11
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    I didn't mean to imply there was a legal solution. I assumed everybody would understand that, my apologies.
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  12. 08-31-2010, 02:57 PM #12
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    I thought some federal authority said there were circumstances where by passing the DRM would be legal? Didn't Creole Ned post something about that?
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  13. 08-31-2010, 03:15 PM #13
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    Yes, it's legal if you're doing research and don't plan to distribute your methods, or if the DRM is actually a trojan or rootkit. It's not legal to strip DRM for your own use, even if the validation servers are being shut down. Actually the EFF specifically tried to get that added but it was rejected.
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  14. 08-31-2010, 03:26 PM #14
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    Audials One does the trick and claims to be legal (playing the songs analog and then recording digital), but the legality of that is a large grey area (but at least a grey area).
    But I'm not sure the free version does, though. And you can probably find a cd-burner for less.
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  15. 08-31-2010, 04:06 PM #15
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    I considered getting a burner, but my need for one has been so little I couldn't justify the cost. I'm losing access to three albums, and it hardly seems worth the trouble to buy and install a burner. I'm not happy about this, but I'm sure there's a dude out there frantically trying to burn 100 albums.

    This particular digital service lost my business when amazon went DRM free, so needless to say I don't plan on giving them any more of my money anyway.
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  16. 08-31-2010, 04:28 PM #16
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    Could you burn them as a redbook CD, but to an ISO, then mount the ISO and use CD ripping software to extract it? I have no idea if that would work but it'd be interesting to try.
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  17. 08-31-2010, 06:28 PM #17
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    Would be a lossy compression anyway. Screw that noise. As it were.
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    Yes this
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    Quote Originally Posted by kerzain View Post
    I considered getting a burner, but my need for one has been so little I couldn't justify the cost. I'm losing access to three albums, and it hardly seems worth the trouble to buy and install a burner. I'm not happy about this, but I'm sure there's a dude out there frantically trying to burn 100 albums.

    This particular digital service lost my business when amazon went DRM free, so needless to say I don't plan on giving them any more of my money anyway.
    Just 3 albums? Rebuy them from Amazon and move on.
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  20. 09-01-2010, 09:55 AM #20
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hans Lauring View Post
    Audials One does the trick and claims to be legal (playing the songs analog and then recording digital), but the legality of that is a large grey area (but at least a grey area).
    Quote Originally Posted by kerzain View Post
    They [Napster] recommend I burn the songs to a CD before I lose my rights to the music I bought.
    Well then is Napster suggesting that you break the law???
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