PS, It galls me a bit that people complain about DRM protections and make Apple out to be this corporate monster.
This is a matter of intellectual property rights. You know, just like that the law that bars you from making copies of CDs and selling them to your friends. Of course, there is almost no way to enforce the latter. In the case of the iTunes store, Apple and the record companies have come up with a good way, almost, of protecting copyrighted material. More power to them. It is a good law, the industry is in trouble, and I don't hold these efforts, any more than I held the efforts to stop Internet sharing, against them. So, you don't like DRM-protected music? There is an easy solution! Go to a music store! Log into Amazon and buy from the comfort of your home (I've spent thousands, literally, on Amazon in the last year alone). Feeling broke? Looking for something obscure? Go to your library! Borrow CDs! Inter-library loans work quite well! I have successfully, and I admit illegally, copied, well, let's just say many CDs checked out from public and academic libraries. Stop complaining. If you don't like lossy, protected music from an Internet store, then avail yourself of commercial and public alternatives -- which happen to be far richer. -- lafayette Sweet Home Alabama ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lafayette's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9022 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31480 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
