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   Anonymous Coward, 10 Sep 2003 @ 9:23pm

   
   

   A couple of intersting observations....

   1 - The "7/11" debit card was discontinued; it apparently lives on at other locations. Interestingly, it requires a SSN now. There as an intersting post on the geek mailing list several years ago about how this card was designed for "undocumentables"... interstingly the geeks digest is no longer available to the public.
   
   2 - Hotelling probably violated some laws, not by selling his legally purchased music, but by providing false information to the credit company. He also had to risk someone intercepting his card (and what if there *is* a 123 Fake St.?). Of course since this was a throw-away, only to be used to make the music files legitimate on the buyers machine, then there's no problem.
   
   3 - ~$30 just to transfer the music? You're going to need to sell a lot of iTunes to make it worth while... probably in the neighborhood of 300 to 500 songs. Does the music industry really want this kind of grass roots agregration?
   
   The over all verdict? Why use iTunes; I think I'll just keep renting and ripping (or traiding and ripping, if you don't live under a reasonable legal regiem).

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   Anonymous Coward, 11 Sep 2003 @ 12:33am

   
   

   iTunes sucks, SACD sucks, DVD-A sucks, corrupted C

   I stick to rippable older CDs, or as a minimum safety measure, not Universals if they are from 2001 or newer
   
   http://www.fatchucks.com/

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   Geoff, 11 Sep 2003 @ 1:10pm

   
   

   Apple's thinking

   notice that Apple said they are meeting to discuss what it means. Instead of flat out forbidding re-sale of itunes songs, they are actually taking it seriously, and thinking about it. Interesting to see.

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