Making an iTunes library protected against ripping onto CD, listen only

Hi there
we have a security issue with itunes. We are a secure college within an HMP&YOI and we use 16 imacs in two rooms. We have installed the same master music library (currently 8500 tunes)on each machine and all students have access to it under their own account.
Our problem is this. 1 (How) is it possible to make a library read only, i.e. so it is not burnable onto a CD, for copyright protection. We want the lads to be able to hear the music without being able to 'rip' it to CD.
2. Is it possible to split the library into two libraries, making the content of one burnable and the content of the second not burnable. This way we can offer them instrumentals and original titles for burning and commercial copyright protected titles for listening only.
NB None of the content has been downloaded from the itunes store.
Your help on this matter would be very much appreciated.
Mark Anderson
Music dept
HMP & YOI Ashfield

Hi Patrick
Your solution to the problem seemed to be the answer but I now have another problem: not all the macs in the music room can 'see' i.e. share the new intel mac.
They are all connected via a Belkin switch using ethernet and sharing is enabled in all machines. Some of the iSite white iMacs can be seen by the new intel mac but they cannot 'see' the new intel mac. How can an ethernet connection work only one way ? We are using standard ethernet two way cable. All machines are running 10.5.3 apart from the new mac which is happy running 10.4.11.
If I could get all the macs in the room to 'see' the new intel machine, then we could run the intel machine as the Master iTunes Library and share it as you suggest 'read-only' to the other machines.
Has anyone any suggestions as to why this is happening ? Is there something other than turning sharing on in system prefs that one has to do to enable two communication between all machines ?
Thanks
Marco

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