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So why, exactly, are they including the lame DLL? What's it used for?

Well, I didn't run the provided player binary, but reading the help file makes it appear to be all about creating protected "EMP" files based on the CD, which only it knows how to play. Why they bother to rip the CD (oh yeah, there's an ASPI driver on the CD too), encode to MP3, and encrypt, rather than just have the encrypted files on the CD in the first place, is beyond me -- even if they wanted to log the user's identity on their servers before allowing playback, they could do that before allowing access to the encrypted files. Maybe they're worried about people copying the CD -- in EMP form -- by copying the data session only.

Peter