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Originally Posted by skarletknite
another negative about ipod/itunes that the mac junkies and the media never bring up. you bought the music, its yours...and you can't use it. i never use itunes and rip/download everything into mp3. (i also got rid of my ipod after i downloaded songs from itunes and couldnt give them to my wife without burning onto a cd, re-ripping, blah blah blah)
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That's the whole point of DRM: You can't share.
You can play it on
your computer or iPod. But you can't give it away. The only way to get the iTunes Store to exist was to use DRM. Apple can either license their flavor of DRM (they choose not to, so far) or use proprietary hardware and software for playback. The downside to thier solution is it locks you in to their Apple-only scenario. My buddy has some other player and does the Rhapsody $15 per month rental thing. You don't ever own your music, just rent it. You have choices other than Apple's iTunes and iPods.
I think Apple's DRM being easily broken by burning onto a CD is intentional on Apple's part. They don't limit how many times you can burn a purchased song onto a CD. It's not so easy to share your purchased songs as clicking a "share" button, but it's not that tough either.