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> You miss the point. The problem isn't that Apple uses DRM (or the > particular variant they're using), it's the way they implemented > syncing for the iPod shuffle. It is explicitly a "nuke everything, > write new stuff to the device" arrangement. It is no great surprise > under these circumstances that a poorly-restored music collection with > out-of-date metadata is going to mean some loss of content. > > Which may or may not be hateful, but has nothing to do with DRM. except that, IMO, the only justification for setting up the destroy-by-default synchronization scheme -- which is, as other posters note, contrary to general practice synching other gadgets -- is that they assume their users are *necessarily* infringing copyright if they turn up with an MP3 on their iPod that isn't on the computer that it's plugged into. it may not be DRM in terms of CSS or AAC, but it's "rights management." i first enountered the data deletion (and posted the original post in the "DRM can bite my ass" thread) when i was just trying to recharge my shuffle, and plugged it into a handy USB port one day, not expecting that it was going to do anything other than mooch electrons. that day i did get a warning, which i didn't understand to mean "i am going to delete your data"; yesterday i simply didn't get a warning at all. improvement! it's just all very hateful software behavior, though i'll grant that it's almost certainly inspired by policy which is not entirely apple's fault. still, if they are going to give in to the man, they really ought to give me a dialogue box which says plainly that my iPod is going to be reformatted. the really sad thing is that, all this notwithstanding, i'm still pathetic enough to want one of the new tiny clippy shuffles. there's a word for people like me. baaaaaaaa, --s.There's stuff above here
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