Can't you authorize the new computer? Entering the password into it's iTunes also?
I've never had that happen to me.
'Burning the cd's as 'audio' CD's is a PITA, but that too is another workaround.
On Feb 4, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Ken Meinken wrote:
> A WARNING: We just moved my wife to a new computers (Windows to Windows). About 150 of her songs will not run because they are copy protected and iTunes will not accept them without the original CDs.
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> What I believe is happening is that if you bring them in from the original CDs, they can be loaded and run in iTunes. But just a copy via thumb drive from another computer will not be adequate for the copy protection.
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> So bottom line seems to be that you need to CDs if you ever change computers. Maybe someone else can comment on this
