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Thanks for the welcome and the pointers.
I agree with you though, downloading music is stealing (i used to be a big 'theif', but now I find loopholes, i.e. Russian websites that sell music for pennies a song due to no international copyright laws)
Technology is becoming more and more of a propriety war. Companies are siding with companies and trying to make exclusive products. Dell deals only with Intel Chips, Apple works exclusively with HP PCs. It also works with products within a single company: If you buy an iPod, you must use iTunes. I bought a computer case for my girlfriend that only fit the same company's power supply (which was much harder to find as well as more expensive).
There is no doubt that this is capitolism at its best. It was just suprising to me how quickly Apple was ready to drop a major marketplace in Europe.
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