Must be something new. I just tried to rip a CD and got a dialogue asking me whether I want to add copy protection or not, and making me tick "I understand that music copied from CDs is protected by law, ..."

Use itunes to rip cd's as shitty as apple is the ripping process is much better on itunes with the options you have in the settings panel.

but thats just an option if wmp is popping up with the new security ticks ^_^

It's just an option. I told it I don't want DRM added. Installing iTunes won't be better in any way that I can see.

This^^ +1

How do you rip a cd?
I still have one around somewhere.

It is because you're ripping directly into WMA and you have that option enabled.

If you want to rip like a pro, use EAC.

As far as I'm aware that option has always been there. Although it's possible the question was phrased differently, or just in the options and not a pop up...

I have no idea what "rip like a pro" means, so I think I'll just stay with WMA. I just don't remember seeing it before. That doesn't mean much (could be I just forgot about it), but just struck me as interesting.

For yourself, and those playing along at home, EAC is:

Exact Audio Copy (EAC) is a proprietary CD ripping program for Microsoft Windows. It has also been tested to work under newer versions of Wine on Linux. This program was created by Andre Wiethoff in 1998, while he was a student at the University of Dortmund in Germany, stating he became "fed up with other audio grabbers", and decided to develop his own.

If there are any errors that can't be corrected, the software tells the user which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so they could easily control it with, for example, the media player.

EAC is used to convert the tracks on standard audio CDs to WAV files, which can then be transcoded into other formats. These include lossy ones such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, or lossless ones such as ALAC, FLAC, or WavPack using external encoders. It also has the option of using the Windows Audio Compression Manager (ACM Codecs) for direct compression. It supports AccurateRip (automatically comparing the copy with those rips made by others) and can automatically create Cue Sheets, with all gaps, track attributes, ISRC, and CD-Text included. EAC also supports automatic ID3 tagging using Internet-based databases such as freedb, GD3 (see below), or a local database.

With the release of 1.0b1, EAC supported the downloading of CD cover art, and in b2, an option was added to have the ID3 information, such as artist, CD title, track names, and cover art downloaded automatically from the GD3 database. The GD3 option allowed a user who set up an account to make 10 free initial queries, but afterwards, required them to pay a one-time fee of $7.99, after which they were allowed to make an unlimited number of queries.

EDIT: The current release is 1.0b4 (December 18, 2014)

Exact Audio Copy is freeware, free for non-commercial use, and popular among audiophiles for its accuracy and ability to rip slightly damaged audio compact discs.

SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact_Audio_Copy

Thanks shane-o. Sounds good for those who really really care about their ripping.

I think that my current choice of ripping fits well with the $10 headphones I'm using. :)

You're welcome, Sir; glad to help :)

Why on earth would anyone want to put DRM on their own music voluntarily? That's like buying a shirt and being asked if I want the buttons to be replaced with padlocks.

I remember ripping from several programs a while ago... One was simply called CD Ripper (can't recall if it had another more obvious name, but it could rip DVD's as well, but newer copy protection made it obsolete), VLC, Windows Media Player, PowerISO, Xbox Media Center (XMC), Cool Edit Pro, DVDFab Decryptor...

I'm certain there's more but those are what i can remember off the top of my head.

That my friend, is punk rock fashion. Just throw on a couple of safety pins and you're good to go.