The guy in the Apple shop told me that it is possible to deauthorize all of the pc's that you have ever authorized on my account, even the ones that you no longer use and forgot to deauthorize before getting rid of them...but I have forgotten what he said and how to do it..DOH.

I have had a look but can't see how to do them all.

Any one know how?

Thanks.

Hopefully something in this little lot 'll help...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93014

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300160

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300161



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Thanks moonlight...:)

Just been into my account and it tells me there are 4 authorized PC's but there is no option to de-authorise them all.

I only have 2 that I currently use!

What do I do?

Thanks.

Just been into my account and it tells me there are 4 authorized PC's but there is no option to de-authorise them all.

I only have 2 that I currently use!

What do I do?

Thanks.

Burn song to CD. Rip song from CD. DRM magically vanishes.

DRM magically vanishes.

DRM....:confused:

DRM....:confused:

Digital Rights Management. It's the stupid thing Apple puts on its files to stop you putting them on more than five devices. If you're running a Mac you can use iMovie to import the files then export them again and that will work. But if you burn your iTunes downloaded files to an audio CD using iTunes it converts them to CDDA (WAV) files to make the audio CD. These files don't support any kind of DRM, so when you import the songs from your CD back into iTunes as an mp3 or AAC file they won't have the copy protection on so you can put them on all your computers.

It is theoretically there to stop you giving the file to all your friends. But if you have a family with a couple of computers, maybe a laptop and a desktop or two, three or four iPods in the family (one each in a family of four) and maybe have your music on your work computer as well, that means you've got maybe 8 devices you would want your paid for music on. And you can only have it on 5. Which is clearly stupid.

And what's even more stupid is you can just circumvent the whole thing anyway by burning it to a CD, which it provides the facility itself for you to do! So if you were that way inclined anyway, giving copies to your friends isn't exactly challenging.

Burn song to CD. Rip song from CD. DRM magically vanishes.

Err, or you could actually deauthorise all the machines.

You can only do this once in a 12 month period, and I think all 5 need to be used up before you can deauthorise them all.

Burning to and then ripping from CD wouldn't be that great in terms of quality, and is really a long winded non-solution to a simple problem.