Your CD collection has become more valuable over time because third parties could freely enable new uses, like ripping MP3s or creating your own ringtones. That's not the case with music you buy from Real. You'll have to rebuy all your music in a compatible format. Unlike MP3s, DRM-crippled music can't easily be converted to other formats.

• Restricts back-up copies: Song can only be copied to 5 computers
• Limits audio CD burning: Same album or playlist can only be burned 5 times
• No reselling songs
• No remixing: Cannot edit, excerpt, or otherwise sample songs
• DRM restrictions can change

If you use any of the itunes store to buy music downloads, you might be pretty unhappy with the limited amount of things you can do with it.

MAC M4P Converter M4P to MP3 Converter does not crack the protection; it simply burns music to a Virtual CD-RW disc and then automatically rip/encode the music stored on the Virtual CD-R. In this way, MAC M4P Converter can convert any formats of music to any formats. Because of the method it uses to provide you with unrestricted files, its use will be completely legal in most countries.