Unfortunately that will be the case. To remove the protection, you will have to 
buy the song or playlist from the iTunes Store.


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> On 2 Jul 2015, at 18:37, Stan ZA <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> Does this also mean that we can no longer convert to MP3 format, and put the 
> music on usb sticks for playing on other devices?
> Stan ZA
> [email protected]
> 
> 
> 
> On 02 Jul 2015, at 3:39 AM, george b <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> no
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Quinn
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 18:21
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Downloading from Apple Music library
>> 
>> Can you burn them?
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jul 1, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all
>>> After playing with the desktop version of the service, located inside 
>>> iTunes 12.2 and later, for both Windows and Mac, I can confirm that each 
>>> and every song you download from the Apple Music library, not your iCloud 
>>> Music Library, has integrated copy protection. This can be observed by a 
>>> change in the filename extention which we will all have to get used to; 
>>> M4P. This is an iTunes protected file, hence the "p", and can even consist 
>>> of music videos, the file that is. So please, don't try to share what you 
>>> download, legal or otherwise, as it's not going to work. Also, anything you 
>>> download from the Apple Music library will refuse to play once the trial or 
>>> subscription expires, whatever comes first. They will play again when you 
>>> subscribe or re-subscribe whatever is the case. And how do I know? Once you 
>>> download from the Apple Music library, it will be located in the following 
>>> paths:
>>> Windows: /users/username/music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Apple Music.
>>> Mac: ~/music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Apple Music.
>>> Apple has definitely gone about this the right way, and so they should 
>>> since they've been dealing with music since the introduction of the iPod 
>>> back in 2001.
>>> 
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