[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.

[rwilson99]

I'm just bitter that my Macintosh computer was never compatible with the illegal shareware sites. You're probably right.

I had an Macintosh laptop that lasted 7 years. In that time, I borrowed PC laptops for specific activities, and both blew up the mother boards while I had them. I swear... I did nothing wrong... I think.

[CFC__VRWC]

It's problem is primarly with WMA files with non-Apple digital rights management like those purchased online from Wal-Mart.

You can work around that, though. As I pointed out in #86, one way to do this is to burn the non-iTunes tracks to a CD and then rerip them into your iTunes library. It's a bit of a pain, but it does work.

Other players won't accept the AAC tracks you purchase from the iTunes store either. I honestly think that this has as much to do with the manufacturers and the music services putting in enough basic anti-piracy protection to convince the record labels to continue letting them sell digital music, as it has to do with forcing consumers to only shop at their sites.