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Once again, hijacking some elses work
Apple poured millions to develop the iPod hardware and the underlying software. It **at the insistance of the music industry** incorporated DRM.

And now what? The songbird people think they are entitled to access all those iPods?

And don't start about the "people" and choice. Everyone who bought an iPod up to now has known exactly what they were getting into; what the capabilities were (burn to CD) and what the restrictions were (play on 5 computers).

There are hundreds of different MP3 players out there... focus on those. Oh I forgot, they want to work with Apple's cool hardware after Apple has done all the hard work.

Pathetic. I'm no fan of software patents and the like, but this type of stuff amounts to intellectual rape.
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Once again, hijacking some elses work  croberts | 12/03/08
Focus on the other mp3 players.....done...  storm14k | 12/03/08
Are you kidding  compsrt | 12/03/08
Difference?  croberts | 12/03/08
Right to do WHAT?!?  readwryt@... | 12/04/08
Don't all proprietary outfits claim the same thing?  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 12/03/08
You mean...  SquishyParts | 12/03/08
Huh  compsrt | 12/03/08
"We deserve to mess up your lawn"!  LBiege | 12/03/08
Seriously?  johndoe1a | 12/12/08
You don't get out much, do you?  Dr. John | 12/04/08
As much as I support FLOSS  gmureddu@... | 12/04/08
once again...  readwryt@... | 12/04/08
I doubt users knew what they were getting into  butler360 | 12/04/08
You are SERIOUSLY confused!  Dr. John | 12/04/08
True, but an iPod won't work without software.  914four | 12/05/08
Freeware  The Management consultant | 12/09/08
Blah Blah  Alan Smithie | 12/22/08
Lots of players out there...  Stuka | 12/03/08
"to guarantee correct functionality"  fr0thy2 | 12/03/08
Warrantee???  dmhunter@... | 12/04/08
Warranty Voided?  johndoe1a | 12/12/08
Better wait for v. 2 or 3  andycher | 12/03/08
The site is not the key  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 12/03/08
Long fight  Boot_Agnostic | 12/04/08
RE: Should Apple worry about Songbird 1.0  cymru999 | 12/04/08
Songbird 1.0 Froze Up XP after about 30 minutes  PMC-CON | 12/04/08
I'd guess you're in the minority there  butler360 | 12/04/08
Users will be Songbird's biggest battle  butler360 | 12/04/08
RE: Should Apple worry about Songbird 1.0  thammr | 12/04/08
RE: Should Apple worry about Songbird 1.0  troutsoup | 12/04/08
No need for Apple to worry  trentreviso | 12/06/08
Let's say I don't have to worry about Apple  virarfast | 12/08/08
RE: Should Apple worry about Songbird 1.0  johndoe1a | 12/12/08
No they should not worry.  johndoe1a | 12/12/08
Mozilla: Just 20%?  Fred Fredrickson | 12/15/08

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