[Astronaut]

Well, of course the solution is iPod registration. Every iPod owner must register with the government. It may become necessary someday to ban and confiscate all iPods. We should also be suing Apple Computer for creating and negligently marketing this dangerous product. We have to do this. For the children.

[jtminton]

I think we should sue the color white. Better yet, white people.

[antiRepublicrat]

We should also be suing Apple Computer for creating and negligently marketing this dangerous product.

Somebody already sued Nissan because they didn't tell him those cool xenon headlights were theif magnets.

[antiRepublicrat]

Well, of course the solution is iPod registration.

That might be a cool option, to do it like how stolen cellphones are handled (at least in Germany). Every iPod gets a hardware-coded ID number, and on an iTunes synch the number is matched against a database of reported stolen iPods at Apple. If it matches, iTunes won't synch. Or even more severe the iPod is toast until Apple sends an unlock code through another iTunes synch. Nah, better, superimpose someone saying "You are listening to a stolen iPod" over all music played.

I'm sure this could eventually be hacked, but the common mugger will find an iPod useless after a while.