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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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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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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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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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