Drm = Bs

[googs]

:bang: for the love of all that is holy please tell me if there is a wma(drm protected) to mp3(or ANY other format) conversion program that is FREE? Not a 30 sec trial or any crap like that? I realize the legal ramifications so we can skip that part. personally i feel that I bought the song (yes at 2.50) so I should be entitled to deconstruct it byte by motherf'ing byte if I so please. Any help would be appreciated greatly (and cheaply). You can call me a get it for nothin (http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116860) but my bill this month was $170.00 thanks, :bang:

[jh101_7]

burn to cd then re-rip

[googs]

Easy enough and I apprecaite the prompt reply but I guess I forgot to mention I don't have a cd-rw drive, I could do it a more current computer but that kind of defeats the point and idiological? stance. Any other ideas? :fingers:

[lgmayka]

Download a free program like My MP3 Recorder which can record, in MP3 format, anything coming to your sound card. You can then play the song in WMA and recapture it in MP3.

[Tigrrre]

it's called usenet.

[krudl3r]

it's called usenet.

You are forgetting the first rule of usenet... ;)

[googs]

Download a free program like My MP3 Recorder which can record, in MP3 format, anything coming to your sound card. You can then play the song in WMA and recapture it in MP3.
I'll try this thank you

[googs]

You are forgetting the first rule of usenet... ;)
maybe you could be a little more specific:

Usenet is a set of protocols for generating, storing and retrieving news "articles" (which resemble Internet mail messages) and for exchanging them among a readership which is potentially widely distributed. These protocols most commonly use a flooding algorithm which propagates copies throughout a network of participating servers. Whenever a message reaches a server, that server forwards the message to all its network neighbors that haven't yet seen the article. Only one copy of a message is stored per server, and each server makes it available on demand to the (typically local) readers able to access that server. Usenet was thus one of the first peer-to-peer applications, although in this case the "peers" are themselves servers that the users then access, rather than the users themselves being peers on the network.

RFC 850 was the first formal specification of the messages exchanged by Usenet servers. It was superseded by RFC 1036.

One difference between Usenet and newer peer-to-peer applications is that one can request the automated removal of a posting from the whole network by creating a cancel message, although due to a lack of authentication and resultant abuse, this capability is frequently disabled. Copyright holders may still request the manual deletion of infringing material using the provisions of World Intellectual Property Organization treaty implementations, such as the U.S. Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act.

On the Internet, Usenet is on TCP Port 119.


[edit] Organization
The major set of worldwide newsgroups is contained within nine hierarchies, eight of which are operated under consensual guidelines that govern their administration and naming. The current "Big Eight" are:

comp.*: computer-related discussions (comp.software, comp.sys.amiga)
misc.*: Miscellaneous topics (misc.education, misc.forsale, misc.kids)
news.*: Discussions and announcements about news (meaning Usenet, not current events) (news.groups, news.admin)
rec.*: Recreation and entertainment (rec.music, rec.arts.movies)
sci.*: Science related discussions (sci.psychology, sci.research)
soc.*: Social discussions (soc.college.org, soc.culture.african)
talk.*: Talk about various controversial topics (talk.religion, talk.politics, talk.origins)
humanities.*: Fine arts, literature, and philosophy (humanities.classics, humanities.design.misc)
(Note: the asterisks are used as wildmat patterns, examples follow in parentheses)

See also Great Renaming.

The alt.* hierarchy is not subject to the procedures controlling groups in the Big Eight, and it is as a result less organized. However, groups in the alt.* hierarchy tend to be more specialized or specific—for example, there might be a newsgroup under the Big Eight which contains discussions about children's books, but a group in the alt hierarchy may be dedicated to one specific author of children's books. Binaries are posted in alt.binaries.*, making it the largest of all the hierarchies.

Many other hierarchies of newsgroups are distributed alongside these. Regional and language-specific hierarchies such as japan.* and ne.* serve specific regions such as Japan and New England. Companies such as Microsoft administer their own hierarchies to discuss their products and offer community technical support. Some users prefer to use the term "Usenet" to refer only to the Big Eight hierarchies, others include alt as well. The more general term "netnews" incorporates the entire medium, including private organizational news systems.....

---less sarcasm and inside jokes

[fienix]

try fairuse

[googs]

.....taken from "www.fairuse.com" (now defunct) (http://www.dtt-lyrics.com/open_letter.html) :indiff:

thanks anyway...... the search continues

disregard that: I found it (http://s9.quicksharing.com/v/9438118/FU4WMver13.zip.html) , I hope it works

[krudl3r]

maybe you could be a little more specific:
Usenet is a set of protocols for generating, storing and retrieving news "articles"...
---less sarcasm and inside jokes

:rolleyes:


If you don't care about the legal ramifications of removing DRM protection, why are you so concerned about getting a FREE program to do it?

And if you are going to cut and paste out of the Wikipedia, you could name your source... that way people know where to respond to your "comments".

[googs]

:rolleyes:


If you don't care about the legal ramifications of removing DRM protection, why are you so concerned about getting a FREE program to do it?

And if you are going to cut and paste out of the Wikipedia, you could name your source... that way people know where to respond to your "comments".
1. READ personally i feel that I bought the song (yes at 2.50) so I should be entitled to deconstruct it byte by motherf'ing byte if I so please : opening thread. This thread wasn't started to debate legality issues. I was asking for help, not to answer your questions on why I think or want it to be free.
2. REACT If you want to talk about forum etiquette than try responding to the thread not someones answer, it wastes space and time, it wasn't funny. It's lurking and if you have spare time, help or MOVE :OT: ON

[trakslacker]

I'll hand you the shovel, but you will have to do the digging yourself. ;)

clicky clicky (http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/fairuse4wm-strips-windows-media-drm/)

[googs]

Thank you, I found it earlier based on fienix's, but yours was easier to find (no hand-tools needed) see next...

[googs]

Thank you to all that helped, my issue has been resolved. My songs are once again mine. I appreciate your time. (I used the above mentioned program (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=114916) :haha: than converted with another (http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/dlfull.htm). :headbang2

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