[makicr]

Originally Posted by doogald

Interestingly, the e-mail from MSN Music announcing this detailed what you can do to make sure that you still have access to music that you purchased. (Their instructions were to burn the songs to an audio CD and then re-rip them.)

That method would be changing the music content from the original digital format, reducing the quality in many situations. What the others were discussing was to modify the actual digital file, to strip off the DRM.

[makicr]

Originally Posted by doogald

Interestingly, the e-mail from MSN Music announcing this detailed what you can do to make sure that you still have access to music that you purchased. (Their instructions were to burn the songs to an audio CD and then re-rip them.)

That method would be changing the music content from the original digital format, reducing the quality in many situations. What the others were discussing was to modify the actual digital file, to strip off the DRM.