Wow!!!

Wow!!! This many people are actually spending this much money for Itunes? For one, it's Apple, c'mon people. Second, you guy's are limited to a certain file format that Apple has you cornered with when you buy this, "iPod". Ridiculous! Why don't you all take the time to download, convert, name tags, do what you need to, and put music on an item that allows you multiple formats? Without putting money in these people's pockets, for an item that just isn't worth it.

Piracy Alive and Well?

4 Billion Tracks sold since 2003?

Just goes to show you piracy is alive and well.
God Bless the RIAA!!

RIAA...

This just shows that the recording industry is on a one-track path the way of the stram engine. They wanted to monopolize the format of our music to something that is eaisily destroyed (I still have tapes loose in a box, no scratches yet)

and force us into buying an album with 9-14 tracks with only a few being worth buying or listening to. Now, in the real world, people can get their music for free and they sue grannies into the ground for 'criminal acts of piracy'. Hang us all, arghhh!

I applaud the iTunes Store because I can choose whether or not to buy a song individually based on it's merits as a song, however there are still a few kinks to work out.

For instance, I am a single parent trying to make ends meet. If there was a fire, it would be illegal to get my music back without buying it all over again. My iPod holds 8,000 songs, am I to be deprived of such a basic aspect of life as music until I can 'pull myself up by my bootstraps'? and fork over $8,000 all over again? Well there's a one track litigous derailment for the RIAA, basic commercial rights and freedoms of individuals.

One more thing is to be done, We need a system to keep track of our licenses. If it's legal to download music *that we have already bought* from p2p networks, there needs to be a way to keep track because I could be thrown in prison and fined if I bought a CD 10 years ago and I threw the worthless scratched disc away. I didn't save my recipts when I was 13 years old either. I bought the rights of private home use for life of the song and I can be imprisoned for theft? Shiver Me Timbers!, who are the pirates now, RIAA?