Are you in the US? Legality is strongly location-dependent, e.g. "Now I've heard that it is technically easy to rip the iTunes DRM to recover an MP4, but that i

Are you in the US? Legality is strongly location-dependent, e.g. "Now I've heard that it is technically easy to rip the iTunes DRM to recover an MP4, but that is likely illegal again." is totally legal in Spain where people have the RIGHT of private copy of their purchased media (including circumventing any restrictions).