By Jo Best
Published: Monday 14 February 2005
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I shop Apple iTunes and Apple gives you great freedom with the music you buy. With all songs you can burn them to a regular audio CD, then you can rip MP3 files from there as you wish. And MP3 is compatible with nearly all portable players. So iTunes is technically not tied to the iPod alone.
However Apple's iTunes section is horrible in not informing the customer about possible portable player issues and how to circumvent them with the method I just described.
In the end though, free market forces will force t...
James Clark
The argument is specious to say the least. What te...
Jeff Hewitt
I guess they can't figure out that they could simp...
Anonymous
I shop Apple iTunes and Apple gives you great free...
Anonymous
nobody is forcing them to use that service to down...
scottz
leave it to the french...
you mean i cant take ...
Anonymous
It stikes me that it's a valid complaint - imagine...
Simon
No matter what your view on Apple or Microsoft is,...
Dave
Since writing my initial response, I have seen var...
Dave
copyright is being used by big businesses in their...
Mark SPLINTER
Mark Splinter wrote in a previous post
"copyright...
John Hauxwell
You might as well complain that your petrol-driven...
Malcolm Wilson
Anybody that buys an apple deserves what they get....
Andy B
Just buy the CD, RIP and burn to anything.
ok, ...
Anonymous
Good Read: Old article but relevant.
http://darin...
spongyboy
"There are far superior players out there. Just ta...
spongyboy
Would you buy a CD that only played on 'namebrand'...
Jan Duffy-King
Download the tracks from iTunes. DRM? Yeah right. ...
Thomas
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