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Encoding AAC with DRM

I don't know if anyone has thought about this or not. But can you encode your own tracks with DRM so that people can't steal your music? All the tracks would have the same rights as downloaded ones, but they'd be ripped from your own CD.
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why would you want to? you do realize "stealing" music doesn't mean you no longer have it, right?
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Old December 15th, 2003, 06:25 PM
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\Steal\, v. t. [imp. Stole; p. p. Stolen; p. pr. & vb. n. Stealing.] [OE. stelen, AS. stelan; akin to OFries. stela, D. stelen, OHG. stelan, G. stehlen, Icel. stela, SW. stj["a]la, Dan. sti[ae]le, Goth. stilan.] 1. To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.
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\Steal\, v. t. [imp. Stole; p. p. Stolen; p. pr. & vb. n. Stealing.] [OE. stelen, AS. stelan; akin to OFries. stela, D. stelen, OHG. stelan, G. stehlen, Icel. stela, SW. stj["a]la, Dan. sti[ae]le, Goth. stilan.] 1. To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.
I'm accepting his use of "steal" as the recording industry's usage of "steal", which is basically to copy. After all, if someone were to really *steal* his music, what would he care of drm or not? he wouldn't have it.
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What if I just didn't want anyone to be able to play the music I paid for? I'm not an idiot that you are making me sound like.
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I think that's a very reasonable concept, doesn't sound stupid at all to me.

What's even more interesting to me than DRM-ing CD rips is DRM-ing my own home-grown music. I never thought about how I might do that. Course, I have no hopes or aspirations of my music being stolen or even really listened to, so it doesn't really matter.

I don't know the answer though.
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I beleive Apple have released a tool to encode music into protected AACs, and upload it to them. Surely you could use this without actually uploading them.
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do you know where to find this tool?
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