iTunes Terms of Sale

iTunes Terms of Sale

These are the parts of the contract that worry me:

"You shall be authorized to use the Product on five Apple authorized computers... Apple reserves the right to change the terms and conditions of sale at the iTunes Music Store at any time."

Here's what was said when the iTunes DRM was cracked in January 2004:

"The RIAA can at any time change the DRM rules... and considering their history, it's likely that they will when the majority of consumers have embraced DRM and non-DRM products have been phased out..."

Fred Von Lohmann said:
"The restrictions are very frustrating for consumers, and frankly, are unnecessary... Every song on iTunes Music Store has been available on the Peer to Peer networks within four hours. All the DRM does is frustrate legitimate consumers; it doesn't stop file sharing..."

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