[David M]

This is so absurd it is comical. Truly a long lost episode from Dumb and Dumber. Let them screw themselves...they are not as important or as powerful as they used to be. Stupidity cannot reproduce and they will go extinct if they continue their self-destructive, de-evolutionary behavior. People have options and will go elsewhere. They are not the only game in town. I will definately never buy an Ipod...not when I cannot put music from my own legally purchased CD's on the thing. They think everyone wants to pay 80 cents a song which can only be downloaded from the internet?....yeah right. I think the LA smog causes partial insanity or at the very least, mild retardation.

You have to admit though that it is great entertainment to see an obsolete technological dinosaur go through its final death throes...trying to hurt the same customers that feed the beast as it lays on its side gasping for more money. I'm sure they long for the days of vinyl records which wore out and could not be repoduced or replaced except by going to the record store and buying another vinyl album. At the beginning of last century the buggy whip manufacturers went belly up from a new technology...at the beginning of this century we will see it happen to the recording industry, as it exists, all because of technological advancements...good riddance. The world will be better off without their consumer abuses.