R

emember the good old days? You bought a CD at

your local music store, came home, and listened

to it on your PC. Then you ripped the fi les into

MP3 format and put them on your portable music

player for further enjoyment. It was a happy time,

free of any anti-consumer, content-protection schemes that

prevented us from using our purchased media as we liked.

Today things are different. Thanks to industry-wide digital-

rights-management (DRM) schemes, the music you purchase

can’t be copied to your MP3 player or PDA. And that DVD

22 MA XIMUMPC APRIL 2006

COPY

YOUR MOVIES

AND MUSIC

DON’T LISTEN TO THE MAN—IT’S YOUR INALIENABLE RIGHT TO COPY

YOUR DIGITAL MEDIA FOR PERSONAL USE, AND WE’RE GOING TO SHOW

YOU EXACTLY HOW TO DO IT!

BY MAXIMUM PC STAFF