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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Let me give an economic example of the change. Apple (et. al.) sells a large capacity music player, capable of storing 40,000 peices of music. To purchase (and from a practical standpoint, a DRM'ed product is not a purchase, but a long term rental) the 40,000 pieces of music directly by legal download would cost $40,000 (approx.). Or a person illegally downloads 40,000 songs for an out-of-pocket cost of say, $500. Difference of $39,500.
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That's not a terribly good example, Ralph.
You seem to be assuming that the only things anyone would ever want to put on an iPod are tunes purchased from iTunes on the one hand, or illegally-downloaded music on the other hand.
That is simply not the case.
You can rip your own CDs to an iPod - I have a collection of hundreds of opera CD sets which I have on my iPod.
You can buy low-cost audiobooks, which can be very large. A large novel can be a 1GB audiobook.
You can store photograph or video.
The list is virtually endless.
I currently have 125GB of material on my 160GB iPod. Not one byte of it downloaded illegally. Not 1c spent at iTunes.