Using FFmpeg to convert DRM protected WMA files to mp3

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I see your points and I certainly can understand your view. I agree with you more than we disagree, I assure you.
To compare notes....

  • This is not a tutorial or guide. It is in General Help.
  • There was no provided answer or solution that users can follow to illegitimately skirt copyright or copyright protections.
  • This thread does not contain any digital data, protected or not. It discusses a user accessing his own copyright without disclosing the names of the files or the file contents. No one can download or access the data in question or even knows what that data is publicly.

The above factors are important. And they are different than a guide that specifies a product by name and then tells how to bypass protections step by step.

I had edited my post above while you were typing your reply. So please be sure to read it over as it may provide more clarity on viewpoints.

My own opinion is that this thread is not illegal - but it really toes the line. It gets very close without quite crossing over that line.
And as I said above, I probably would have closed the thread had I seen it at its beginning. It may have worked out ok that this did not happen... since we now learn that copyright owners are protected against removing DRM on their own content.

Now, after the fact, a friendly warning and a reminder to stay diligent is the best we can do.

That being said:

Tagging this for review from @AZorin and @zorink - the ZorinGroup Developers as they may well agree that this thread needs to be truncated or redacted.

In the meantime:

This is true as a glaring oversight on my part.
I took a hiatus from the forum and left it with one Moderator Short. I gave no warning... I just kind of hit some limit and took off for a while.
It is known that @Storm is busy writing as an author- that @337harvey is also overwhelmed with things...
This thread is a bit of a slap in the face to me, as well - to be more considerate and forthcoming. To plan a hiatus prior to reaching any limits and more intelligently manage my time here.

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I had SecureBoot enabled the first few times I installed / reinstalled Zorin OS (I've made a few mistakes necessitating a reinstall, learned from them, and now I believe I've got a stable installation that I can use long-term), but I disabled TPM from the get-go, and disabled SecureBoot later on... it boots faster without SecureBoot, there are fewer issues when updating (MOK interaction with the UEFI on this computer is pretty rudimentary, the UEFI tends to go full-potato sometimes as regards SecureBoot), and I don't really need it (the machine doesn't hold any sensitive information, no one else ever has access to it, it's behind two hardware and one software firewalls, etc.).

I tend to take the same approach that Lotus takes for their vehicles... lighten it until it breaks, then add back just enough to make it reliably work. My full install is only 3.49 GB (which I believe I could get below 3 GB if dependencies didn't prevent removing some packages) and it does everything I need it to do.

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I started this thread and I made it clear in my first post that I wished to remove DRM protection from material copyrighted by myself (songs written and recorded by myself).

It seems to me that Microsoft broke the law when it ‘protected’ the content in question. It’s as if Bill Gates broke into my home and changed the locks and then shouted through the letter box that he was ‘protecting’ the premises as I tried to gain access!

If it’s illegal to remove DRM then why does Microsoft provide a Digital Rights Update Tool? (The fact that it doesn’t always work is another matter.)

I failed in my attempt to remove the DRM. Thanks to all those who offered technical and legal advice.

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If nothing looks working ask directly to Microsoft, hoping that they reply, and possibly in a reasonable time.

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