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Originally Posted by Barto
iTunes forces you to:
Use iTunes now and forever
Use Mac OS X or Windows now and forever
Use an iPod now and forever.
It's not the "now" part I'm concerned about.
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Not true. Burn your music on a cd and voila: you have a cd with unprotected, unrestricted music you can play anywhere and rip as many times as you want.
Apple DRM is a joke. Fake. Non-existent. A placebo for record bosses with cold feet who are finding out that they aren't earning one penny less for it.
And to consumers, Apple DRM is no restriction, only a little inconvenience sometimes which is easily compensated by the ease of use of iTunes as a whole.
I said it before: essential is that the new French laws
favor Apple's licencing model and hurt the really strict subscription models that Microsoft et al. have. It's Microsoft who has to worry.