On Tuesday, Apr 29, 2003, at 07:59 Europe/Zagreb, Thubten Kunga wrote: > If that's true, the I would NEVER buy a track from the iTunes store. > Multiple ripping for multiple purposes is a fundamental American right > written in the Constitution. It has got nothing to do with iTunes store, it is a simple technical limitation. each time you 'rip' a sound recorded from a file which used lossy compression, you lose some more. Do it enough times and you might get something so bad that it might open up a whole new music genre.