Apple Stole My Music. No Seriously.

[Ron Obvious]

89. iTunes has been a fascist dick since the beginning

More than 10 years ago, a friend of mine bought one of the first generation iPods. Together, we spent an entire Sunday ripping his CD collection to put on the damn thing. I think it was over 60 Gb if that's even possible with an iPod of that generation.

After he sync'ed it all to his player with iTunes, we both thought it was rather a waste to maintain 60 Gb of data on his computer's hard drive as well (over 40% of the total capacity, I think) for this duplicate data, so he erased it off his hard drive.

You can guess what happened next: he sync'ed his player with iTunes and everything on the player was erased as well.

I maintain my own CD rips and music, and I decide where it goes and what happens to it. Not Apple, not Google, not Microsoft. I have over 200 Gb of music organised in a directory structure that makes sense to me: Composer: Symphony: rendition, or Band: Album. I back it up myself because I know exactly where everything is and I am the one in charge of my own equipment and data.

Use common file formats, avoid applications like iTunes that want to manage your music and movies, and avoid DRM at all costs (or remove it). Reclaim your data and equipment from the fascists.

Astonishing that anyone would defend this crap.