[Thoro]

Only if you are silly enough to use an adware/spyware infected client. Phex is open source. I'd trust that over any commercial product.

The iTunes market is targeting the person who doesn't want to deal with all those headaches of being computer savvy. It's worth it for them to pay the dollar for the song they want to download with minimal search effort, already in the preferred sample rate, burn it and be done with it.

[Haru Hara Haruko]

The iTunes market is targeting the person who doesn't want to deal with all those headaches of being computer savvy.

Any commercial DRM'ed source requires much more savvy than unprotected MP3s. Try switching computers or recovering your lost iTunes files. DRM is no user's friend.