Moving the successful iTunes music download service from its own platform to the wide world of Windows, Apple this week entered a crowded marketplace that is still dominated by free peer-to-peer services. Yet iTunes and other paid services, which differ only slightly in their rules for downloading, burning and transferring licensed music, take away file-traders’ excuse that there is no legal alternative to music piracy. Now, it seems, there are too many legal alternatives to keep track of.
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Apple Tweaks iTunes for Windows, Teams with AOL
Posted by: Jay Lyman October 17, 2003 09:46 AMMoving the successful iTunes music download service from its own platform to the wide world of Windows, Apple this week entered a crowded marketplace that is still dominated by free peer-to-peer services. Yet iTunes and other paid services, which differ only slightly in their rules for downloading, burning and transferring licensed music, take away file-traders’ excuse that there is no legal alternative to music piracy. Now, it seems, there are too many legal alternatives to keep track of.