Recently we reported about new Napster's portable version of music subscription service, offering $15-per-month fee to carry songs from a catalogue of over a million tracks on Napster-compatible players.

It took ten days for hackers to find a way to skirt copy protection on Napster's portable music subscription service. Instructions on how to hack Napster are appearing on sites like BoingBoing, Engadget.com and Designtechnica Forums.

The hackers have found a way to convert the digitally protected files downloaded from Napster from one format to another that can then be burned freely onto CDs.

According to Napster's CTO statement, neither Napster To Go, Napster, nor Windows Media DRM have been hacked.

isn't it a bad idea to post in here the web sites that tell us how to hack it... it's kind of like asking us to do it.

If you look closer to the method proposed, it's not real 'hack'. It's just capturing it with your sound card. So it is legal....and kind of obvious.

Does that mean I can't patent it

oh wait if file under software with hardware implimentation I can still patent it

Asking us to do it? Not at all. It is entirely up to the individual whether they decide to perfom that act or not.
Unless manipulation of the songs that you buy and keep as your property is against the contract it is entirely legal. The act of posting the manipulated file on the internet should be the part in question here not the act of manipulating the file itself. It is your property after you purchase it and you should be able to do with it what you please with the exception of redistributing it.