Yeah, DRM definitely sucks. I've been ripping all my CDs with Sonicstage 3.2 without copy protection and some CDs deliberately make your computer stop responding and plague the ripped files with squeaky noises and clicks. I thought they were going to remove this copy protection rubbish from CDs, they should anyway. I wanted to keep my music collection on a removable hard-drive but didn't want to have to back it up if I reformat my computer in the future.