[rwilson99]

Has it ever occured to some of you that bash applie for making I-tunes a proprietary site has a lot to do with preventing music piracy.

I-pod provides an outlet to digitally distribute legitimate music. While nearly every other player allows pirated files to heard.

In other words... if you DON'T want your kid stealing music, buy an I-Pod.

[FreedomCalls]

In other words... if you DON'T want your kid stealing music, buy an I-Pod.

But that's just it. It play stolen mp3s that have the DRM stripped from them just fine. What it won't play is legally purchased audio from other competing vendors that have the DRM still embedded. It's not about preventing piracy, it's about preventing competition.

[Melas]

Wrong answer. Your kid can put all the stolen music on his Ipod that he can find room to store. The problem is that your kid can't put songs he's purchased from other services on his Ipod. Itunes and the Ipod doesn't discriminate against non-protected music files that are traded illegally. It's problem is primarly with WMA files with non-Apple digital rights management like those purchased online from Wal-Mart.