digital rights management

[Albin Blaschka]

erniewinner schrieb:
> hi,

> i'm having drm issues. basically i joined a download service and they
> have lots of mp3's... cool! but some content is wma drm, i would have
> used win98se to acivate them then convert them but microsoft have
> officially given up on win98se and it was dangerous enough to use
> windows when it was supported... i have 1 licence for xp but i won't
> use that computer on the net as it has all my critical stuff on it. i'm
> not going to buy another licence for xp... no thank you. to be honest ms
> should pay me for having to use their software, because of the choas
> involved. (why does copy protection always have to annoy the user???)
> so how am i going to aquire my licence for my music then convert to mp3
> without paying microsoft? i wonder if i could officially complain that i
> don't trust there software for safe internet usage. and i am being
> denied the rights to music i have paid for!!! :-?
> 

Hello,

I don't know how to activate those mp3s but maybe a short term solution
would be to try wine...it is installable over universe, as far as I
remember...
For further information see http://www.winehq.com/

HTH,
Albin

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