Is there a way to unprotect songs?

I have songs from my old hardrive that i tried importing into the itunes library. They are in Windows Media Audio (wma) format. they are protected in this format. is there a way to unprotect them and get them into itunes format so i can get them on to itunes?

I don't know of a way to directly unprotect them, but can you burn them out to a normal Audio CD from Winodw Media Player or whatever you used on your machine to play them? If so, you can then import them from the Audio CD to iTunes. Use a CD-RW disc so you don't waste a bunch of blacks (although if you use CDRs you can put them away as backups).
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