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Originally Posted by wheelsup
You absolutely should. The outcry should be against Apple for not allowing use of songs purchased on another medium other than their products.
Eventually 1 of 2 things will happen. People will migrate away from Apples' I-tunes site in favor of Amazon or something similar or Apple will allow use of bought songs on other devices. The fact that they are blocking the Pre screams of immaturity and protectionism. This just gives me another reason to buy the Pre and thank my lucky stars that I returned the iPhone.
The ironic thing is mac's got their start from open source, free code via linux.
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If you bought DRM songs on iTunes you can in most cases upgrade them to open music files that you can play anywhere, iTunes has a menu option to actually check for that.
Apple dropped DRM once the music labels allowed it, but fyi, Amazon sells the same songs for less money, so buy the songs on Amazon - both are unencrypted now, but Amazon is less $$$.
Fwiw, Apple plays anything that isn't locked down with another companies DRM - people seem to forget that when Apple opened the downloadable music market up, everything was DRM under lock and key as a condition of sale - its not Apple's fault, its the music labels' fault.
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