you don't need any special equipment per se....

because of line levels, you can't connect your turntable directly to your sound card, you must instead go through your amplifier, and using one of the outs (like a tape out, or auxiliary out) connect that to your card's inputs...and since you most likely don't have a pro-audio card with rca ins and outs, you will need an rca to 3.5mm adaptor...either a local music store or radio shack should have that...

so that's all the 'equipment' you really need...

and taking that into account, anybody should be able to read between the lines and know that 'piracy' will never be stopped..this whole concept of copy protection is a total, complete, waste of money..the only ppl who benefit are the jerkwads who say their software 'protects', which it obviously does NOT..end of discussion...

so, now you have the hardware..so some software is needed to record the music as a .wav file, and then convert to .mp3...

unfortunately, I am really the wrong person to ask about the software side of it, as I am a registerered Cubase SX user, and that's the software I use to do what you are referring to..it will record the stuff...allow me to edit to individual tracks...eq, denoise, declickerize it all, and go from there to compress to mp3 so that I can listen to stuff I own (or have created myself) on my computer...

hopefully a knowledgable person who knows of some good freeware will post in addendum to this and help you out....

and of course, we all know that this is for your own personal use, now isn't it?