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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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HarryT, I deliberately used an extreme example, to give sense of how large the differential can be (or become over time). Personally, I can't imagine someone downloading those enomous quantities. I will gently inquire though, what was the total retail cost of your opera CD collection? (either you or somebody before you (if purchased used) bought the CDs, did they not?) 2500 pounds? More? Isn't this a comparable expense to paying for downloads? (Conceptually, if not actually in cost. I consider <both> to be moral acquisition of I.P.) My audio library has cost me over $5,000 US over the last 20 years.
If course, you can create your I.P. and load it for free. It's <your> I.P.
