M4P iTunes Converter Shareware, and hi Bossy’s musician friends currently standing by their mailbox waiting for royalty checks!
Let’s pretend for a second that you download a song from iTunes. And let’s pretend that tune is in the M4P format and therefore is protected. This means you can’t, as a totally random example, send it to a friend in an email not that anyone does this or should.
One way around the problem, hypothetically of course, is to burn this song to a CD, and then use your unprotected CD version of the song to email around, in your dreams not in real life.
Well. This converter shareware allows you to trick your M4P song into thinking it’s being burned to a CD when it’s not and voilà — it becomes an MP3 unprotected song. In theory.
This $39.95 shareware is for Macs, but there are others available for PC. Or you could cop a pirated serial number and download this program for free, cheating the cheaters out of their cheating, not that Bossy has done this or would ever do it or even write about it jokingly.
Gah.
operagal says
February 3, 2009 at 9:32 amyou should call this post “how to use torrents 101”
😉
OG
Jami says
February 3, 2009 at 11:25 amNot that I’ve ever done anything remotely like this, but if one only had a Windoze system, she just might do something like use a free program called something like AVS Audio Converter to do something like what you might possibly be talking about here.
jen says
February 3, 2009 at 12:03 pmIn the movie in my head, I am so doing this.
junebug says
February 3, 2009 at 2:53 pmI like “gah” when you say it. When I first heard “my bad” I didn’t quite grasp it, I assume it came from the Simpson’s. It just seemed wrong. I never say it. But I do like some of the other sayings that young people have come up with like “snap” or “she just owned you.” Those are cool.
Camille says
February 3, 2009 at 5:29 pm“Cheating the cheaters out of their cheating” is such an interesting concept. I kind of love it.
David says
February 4, 2009 at 11:52 amYou lost me at “converter shareware.”
Actually you lost me at M4P.
Dara says
February 4, 2009 at 5:58 pmI am all for cheating the cheaters….out of anything.
Stimey says
February 5, 2009 at 8:02 pmYou’re going to jail.