This has been at the back of my mind for a while now, and I've not got enough blank CDs or spare time to test this but...

...does anyone know about the burn limits in DRM? What I want to know is this:

Say I download an album from iTunes (m4a). I then burn a hard copy for myself to CD. Now I take the hard copy and re-rip it using anything (maybe even iTunes) to mp3. Does this new set of files still have DRM affecting it (and yes I'm aware of the lossy-lossy argument about the quality, this is purely hypothetical)?

It just seems to me that this would be a *stupidly* easy way to get round the burn limit, so I'm wondering if anything is being done about it.

actually that does work with iTunes as long as you rip to a non-DRM'able format (mp3 instead of m4a or wma)

No DRM once you rip if it's mp3, ogg, or anything but m4a and wma I think.

Well dare I say, that's just silly.

Well, if you ask me, the whole concept of trying to prevent a computer from copying bits is silly. I mean, he is incredibly good at this stuff. You could almost say that he was made to copy bits.