Not everyone owns an iPod
I bought a few songs today using iTunes. These songs are ones that are very hard to find in stores and get illegaly. After I got my songs I wanted to load them up on my creative zen nano. Well my mp3 player didn't recoginze the files. So I took a look to find out that the songs I bought are M4P encoded. The only things that can play M4Ps are Apple's Software and Apple Products(the iPod). Apple states that this is for copyright protection... WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!!! You know as well as I do that the only reason for this format is for Apple to sell their crapy over priced products to gullible customers. Now I have to take the songs that I paid for and convert them using one of the many free programs that allows me to do so just to be able to play it on anything that doesn't have an Apple logo.
"The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but [t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts. To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Posted At 2006-09-13 22:41:45 by DeadWolf
Metsuo at 2006-10-01 21:57:16
Blank CDs cost money then I'm spending more money than the store bought album which defeats the purpose of buying it from iTunes in the first place.
Why can't the songs be mp3 format in the first place so I don't have to waste time and money play them on my mp3 player?
Simple way to fix this, go to preferences, burning, then set it to mp3 encode cds, then burn the songs onto a cd, and upload them to your nano