Sour Apple

I love Apple and their products but they seem to be trumping consumers lately in the name of capitalism. Jobs has reigned the company in from the cult it was to a mainstream electronic product powerhouse, (case in point the change in name from Apple Computers to Apple, Inc.)

ANYWAY - my old Dell crashed and with it the few songs I purchased through itunes. My ire for Apple stems from their policy to only authorize the songs on 5 computers AND that you have to repurchase the music if you don't back it up to an external hard drive! It's a pretty counter effectual policy for anti-pirating. Here's what the support page says, (and is it just me or does Apple seem to be pretty blunt and a little smug telling me I need to buy the two cd's I already bought again?)

"Why do I need to back up my music library?

Be sure to make regular backups of your music files (in your iTunes Music folder) by copying them to an external hard disk or other media. Otherwise, if your hard disk becomes damaged or you lose any of the music you've purchased, you'll have to buy any purchased music again to rebuild your library."