Wonderful piece by Mark Pilgrim on the danger of letting someone else control your music through encryption. As he so nicely puts it:
[T]he left hand knows exactly what the right hand is doing: they’re both giving you the finger.
And yes, this does include iTunes. Plus or not, they still con you, although they are admittedly a bit more fair in their approach.
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Jonathan Holst is a programmer, language enthusiast, sports fan, and appreciator of good design, living in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. He is also someone pretentious enough to call himself the 'author' of a blog. And talk about himself in the third person.