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    From S.Georgoulas@S.Georgoulas@eim.surrey.ac.uk (Stelios Georgoulas) to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Saturday, July 05, 2003 03:26:51
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    Hi everyone!
    I am planning to get a new laptop and I want to transfer all files
    from my old one to the new one. However, many music files were copied
    from CDs to the hard drive in wma format using the windows media
    player with the 'copy protect content' turned on (by mistake...).
    Is there any way to migrate the licenses as well to the new laptop so
    that I can listen to these tracks? If so, how?
    Thank you for any answer.
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  • From John Thompson@john@starfleet.os2.us to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Sunday, July 06, 2003 21:10:17
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

    In article <63b364a2.0307050226.587e5398@posting.google.com>, Stelios Georgoulas wrote:

    I am planning to get a new laptop and I want to transfer all files
    from my old one to the new one. However, many music files were copied
    from CDs to the hard drive in wma format using the windows media
    player with the 'copy protect content' turned on (by mistake...).
    Is there any way to migrate the licenses as well to the new laptop so
    that I can listen to these tracks? If so, how?

    Welcome to the joys of Digital Rights Management. If what you ask were
    easily possible, then pirating copy-protected music would be trivial and
    DRM pointless. You thought you got a license to listen to the music you purchased, but it only applies on the machine you originally downloaded it
    to. Talk to the RIAA and see if they can help you.

    --

    -John (John.Thompson@new.rr.com)
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  • From Philip Edward Lewis@flip+@andrew.cmu.edu to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Monday, July 07, 2003 12:58:41
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

    S.Georgoulas@eim.surrey.ac.uk (Stelios Georgoulas) writes:
    Actually, the CDs from which the music tracks were copied to my hard
    drive were not authentic. A friend of mine downloaded the tracks using
    kazaa and burnt them (as music CDs) to listen to them in his car.
    see there is your problem... you and your friend are stealing the
    songs in the first place. you are the reason the RIAA has any power in
    the court system when going up against things like napster et al.

    You've heard the songs, and obviously like them.... go out and buy
    them properly.

    Once you buy them, then you will have the CDs and can burn them to
    MP3s for your own personal use as necessisary.

    --
    flip - not a *IAA fan

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  • From S.Georgoulas@S.Georgoulas@eim.surrey.ac.uk (Stelios Georgoulas) to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Friday, July 18, 2003 02:45:06
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

    S.Georgoulas@eim.surrey.ac.uk (Stelios Georgoulas) wrote in message news:<63b364a2.0307050226.587e5398@posting.google.com>...
    Hi everyone!
    I am planning to get a new laptop and I want to transfer all files
    from my old one to the new one. However, many music files were copied
    from CDs to the hard drive in wma format using the windows media
    player with the 'copy protect content' turned on (by mistake...).
    Is there any way to migrate the licenses as well to the new laptop so
    that I can listen to these tracks? If so, how?
    Thank you for any answer.

    I am answering my own question,
    There is a tool called "Personal License update wizard" in mirosoft's
    media bonus pack that can do what I was looking for. You run it for
    the copy protected files in the old machine, you copy them to the new
    one and when you try to play them using microsoft's media player you
    are redirected to a page where you can complete the procedure(and also
    you don't need to do that for all files, only for one)
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