I think the sense of entitlement comes from the CD days. You would buy a CD and you'd own those songs. You could rip them to CD, convert them to any format you wanted (and with that, put them on any device you want) or burn a copy and use that as to not get the original scratched. Now you buy the songs for the same price on iTunes and you can ONLY use them on an iPod. What if down the road iPods really start to suck, or someday Apple decides to retreat from the music player business. Then what? You "own" a song in AAC that you can't do shit with but play in iTunes.
That is why I would never buy any music that is DRM'd.
You could make mix tapes from records and tapes long before you could from CDs, but it was never really covered by the license agreement. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you're authorized to do so.
And anyway, you can burn protected AAC tracks from iTunes to an audio CD if you want to, no problem.
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I think the sense of entitlement comes from the CD days. You would buy a CD and you'd own those songs. You could rip them to CD, convert them to any format you wanted (and with that, put them on any device you want) or burn a copy and use that as to not get the original scratched. Now you buy the songs for the same price on iTunes and you can ONLY use them on an iPod. What if down the road iPods really start to suck, or someday Apple decides to retreat from the music player business. Then what? You "own" a song in AAC that you can't do shit with but play in iTunes.
That is why I would never buy any music that is DRM'd.
You could make mix tapes from records and tapes long before you could from CDs, but it was never really covered by the license agreement. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you're authorized to do so.
And anyway, you can burn protected AAC tracks from iTunes to an audio CD if you want to, no problem.