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Oh yes, I burned a CD long ago, and I’ve made an mp3 from it.

At one point Walmart sent e-mail out telling us they were terminating the DRM, and that we should burn everything.

Then they sent e-mail out saying that they had changed their minds.

So I don’t know what happened, I only know that after my computer crashed and I had to restore from backup disk, the DRM license I restored from the backup disk would not grant me rights to the songs anymore.

So my two guesses were that Walmart’s servers stopped working, or more likely at some point they replaced my DRM codes and I didn’t get them backed up, although I have no knowledge or belief that they would ever do so.

Since I don’t really care, I have the songs in the form I want them, I haven’t written to Walmart to get it fixed.

I just use it as an example of something where your rights are tied to the good graces of someone who could stop being good to you at any time.