From: "Dave Ings" 

My primary hard drive on my home machine crashed last week. My WMA licences
were backed up (or so I thought). Upon (re)installing Windows XP + all
service packs + hotfixes etc etc on the new drive, I attempted to restore
my WMA licences for music purchased from Puretracks.

I got a variety of semi-intelligible restore errors from Windows Media 10,
none of them which helped much. I did the usual Googling due diligence but
after half an hour of poking around I abandoned the effort.

I only had a dozen DRM protected WMAs, all of which had been converted to
MP3, but the experience was enough to put me off DRM protected music for a
good long time. I will continue to purchase CDs and rip them to MP3 (or at
least I will as long as the music companies allow me to!)
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Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

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> THINK DRM WAS bad already? Think I was joking when I said the plan was
> to start with barely tolerable incursions on your rights, then turn the
> thumbscrews? Welcome to Windows Media Player 11, and the rights get
> chipped away a lot more. Get used to the feeling, if you buy DRM
> infected media, you will only have this happen with increasing rapidity.
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