Random Access 3.0

This is different from the previous program that removed the DRM from an already purchased song. The first one stops it from ever being applied.

See Apple doesn't have DRM on their files until you purchase it, it is applied as you download it to apply the 'restrictions' of only letting you play it on 5 computers and only burn the exact same playlist 7 or so times. See if you want to burn it more than 7 times, you make a new play list and do it again.

Of course, that's 'too restrictive' for people. I've seen bitches and moans from people over on Slashdot's article about this such as this gem:

Who fucking cares. The labels have screwed the customer long enough. We want affordable singles and iTunes is a huge step in the right direction, however, they miss the boat on DRM. I've never bought a damn thing from iTunes. Not because I'm a cheap shit looking for free music, but because of the DRM.

My embedded devices can't play it, my non-iPod MP3 players can't play it, I can't burn 150 compressed songs to a single CD and play them in my car, I can't listen to my music on more than x computers... It's worthless.

or this fun one

I love ITS and the whole iTunes thing, but it does bug me that I can't easily make a CD of mp3 files that I can play in an mp3-compliant CD player (like in a car).

These fucking morons just don't get it. You don't go about changing the industry by fucking with the heavyweights. I'm not talking about Apple, I'm talking about the guys who publish music. These people see their lively hood threatened and they're profits threatened and their going to do everything they can to shut it down.

Now, Apple has to respond by tightening things up, or adjusting things to break. One of these times they adjust they're going to have to break something like a 3 or 4 year old 1st or 2nd generation iPod to make this work. When that happens Apple is the bad guy.

No, Apple is just trying to maintain their cash flow. The iPod alone is reportedly has a halo rate of a staggering 20%. That means that 20% of people who bought an iPod have now gone back and bought an Apple Computer.

That statistic alone could easily drive Apple into a 5% market-share from a 2% market-share in just a year. Fucking with their primary money maker that does that would not be something they'd take lightly, nor would causing their money maker to go down the tubes because the iTMS gets shut down either.