Sony has a solution for iPod users who’ve cashed in their Sony Rewards points for DRMed WMA-format music: Just circumvent their DRM.

And they even tell you how. Of course it’s the old ‘burn it to a CD, then rip CD’ trick, but still, helpful!

Sony is, of course, the last major music publisher to still insist on DRM, but at least they understand that it’s useless, easily circumvented, and annoying.

“Attention iPod users:

Our download service provides files in the WMA music format or the WMV video format, which is not supported by Apple Macintosh computers. To use your music with an iPod, simply follow the steps below:

1. Save each downloaded song to your PC
2. Burn a music CD (in CDA file format)
3. Import the music from the CD into iTunes
4. Update your iPod”

Ars Technica story.

via Michael Geist