Backing Up iTunes Purchases to MP3

Does anyone know when iTunes first prevented backing up songs purchased from the iTunes Store on to an mp3 CD? I recollect doing this in the past, but now find that it can't be done with either version 7.62 or version 8.01. If possible, can you pinpoint the exact upgrade which did away with this feature?
Thanks
John

To burn an MP3 CD the files already have to be in MP3 format, iTunes Stores purchases are AAC so they can't be burned to an MP3 CD without being converted first. Standard copy protected iTunes purchases can't be converted so you couldn't put them on an MP3 CD. Copy protected songs can only be backed up to a Data CD or burned to Audio cd.

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