Could you tell me how to circumvent AAC copy protection? My wife has thousands of songs she can't easily transfer without ripping all of them, 15 or so at a time, to CD.
Isn't this really just a case of a decision which became bad in hindsight as many technology purchasing decisions are?
In a market for music (and digital music) that was (and is) rife with choice, your wife (and others) chose the convenience of iTunes over portability of the format.
That is exactly the same sort of trade off as we all make in purchase we all make every day. In hindsight, particularly in a developing market, we may regret the decisions we make but that doesn't make the vendors acts anti-competitive or immoral or anything else any more than Betamax or Laser Disc or HD DVD was.
Besides, could be worse, she could have bought them on Mini Disc...
