[ale] ipods under linux

[Geoffrey]

George Carless wrote:
>>> No flames from this end. I've been watching the same events thinking 
>>> tha Apple has been just egregious in pursuing product lock-in. And 
>>> Palm has become my new hero by taking them on. Think back to the 
>>> time of records. Imagine if Columbia Records had produced vinyl 
>>> records that could only be played on record players produced by 
>>> Columbia. Do you think the people or the courts would have tolerated 
>>> it? I simply will not buy any more Apple products, no matter what 
>>> the "coolness" factor might be. And this applies especially to songs 
>>> on iTunes. The alternative is out there and it's DRM-free music from 
>>> Amazon.
> 
> Apple's been shifting away from DRM for a good long while, now, and at 
> this point everything on the iTunes store is DRM-free.  Yes, it's AAC 
> and not MP3, but no DRM.  In fact, I would be quite surprised if it 
> didn't turn out that it'd been thanks to Apple's efforts with the labels 
> etc. that had led to the likes of Amazon being able to offer music DRM 
> free.

And as I noted earlier, you can burn a cd of any of your iTunes music, 
drop that on your Linux box, convert to drm-free mp3s.

> 
> Cheers,
> George
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Until later, Geoffrey

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