Reply #111: I think that five times thing is for allowing people to be authorized

[Ignacio Upton]

to play copies of the digital file itself. However, an indirect way of circumventing Apple's DRM is to burn the songs to a CD-R or CD-RW as part of a new audio CD (NOT as a data CD, where the songs stay compressed...this is more efficient in utilizing space on the CD, but the DRM stays intact if you do it this way) and then re-rip the songs as mp3's. However, this process is time-consuming, so I think that Apple pretty much looks the other way on it. I'm surprised that the RIAA hasn't lobbied for them to place limits on the number of times that you can burn the file to a CD-R or CD-RW.