[chaos_5]

If you buy a song through iTunes and put it on your iPod, its stuck on that iPod and the computer you downloaded it to, and you can only listen to your mp3s from “registered computers” or your iPod. I don't remember hownamy computers iTunes lets you link to an account, it dosent matter, I think it's BS anyway. This is the #1 reason that I refuse to support Mac, or iTunes. If I buy an mp3 online I should have the freedom to store it on an external hardrive and listen to them on whatever computer I happen to have at the time.

[Spktyr]

Except 1: The Apple files aren’t MP3s, they’re AACs, and 2: if you get one of the growing number of DRM-less tracks from the Apple Store, there are no restrictions on where or what you can play them on.

The limitation is the doing of the RIAA and the labels, NOT Apple.

[coon2000]

So what is then to keep you from buying iPods for lets just say $200, then loading them up with a couple of thousand dollars worth of songs, then selling them on eBay for $400? I think that the people who wrote, performed and produced the music are entitled to being paid for their product.

[antiRepublicrat]

I agree with you on the DRM-laden tracks (not the non-DRM tracks Apple offers), but the fault lies with the recording industry. Apple had to fight pretty hard with the labels to offer DRM as lenient as it is. Only the market power of iPod/iTunes kept it that way, and opened the door for the non-DRM music.