Sharing iTunes purchases with friends and family

I have actually received some e-mails through iTunes support directly to this question, albeit the responses were a bit vague. I make a CD of some bought songs and they (F&F) load it into their iTunes library, sounds like the compiled track can only be loaded a certain abount of times before another computer has to be authorised. Does this effectivly mean that I save onto a CD/flashdrive a collection of my bought songs. Then if I want to give the same collection to another friend, I just change one song so the playlist is altered, hence not being part of the restriction that the first CD was part of? I'm not even talking about authorising other computers here, just about how many times the same CD can be copied and a compilation appearing on some elses iTunes library without me being hampered in the future. Does this make sense? Pls let me know and I will try to explain this a bit better.

"I make a CD of some bought songs and they (F&F) load it into their iTunes library"
You clearly stated in your first post that friends & family were using your burned CD to load the content into their iTunes library. Apparently,you seem not to understand that making copies of your purchases for other than PERSONAL USE, is:
1)ILLEGAL FILE SHARING
2)Against the TERMS OF SERVICE for the store, which clearly state that your purchases are for PERSONAL USE ONLY.
You are the one who stated that you were giving the burned CD's to friends & family, not me or the other poster who tried to tell you this is illegal file sharing. You even titled your thread "Sharing purchases with friends & family".
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