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Yes there are alternatives, but iTunes is the biggest one out there. Getting unencrypted songs in the iTunes store gets them in front of an awful lot of people. I think the community should treat the iTunes store as 2 seperate entities now, advocating one and criticising the other, that way the message about DRM can influence more people, namely those who don't want to change what they are currently doing. The best thing to do to stop DRM is not to get everyone to leave iTunes, but to give Apple hard figures of DRM vs. non-DRM songs purchased. That way it is their own data, from exactly their target audience, etc. To do that there should be advocacy of non-DRM iTunes over DRM iTunes. Personally I will be paying people to purchase songs for me, since I can't get a Linux client, which is something impossible to do legally before.

If Microsoft announced a Vista Ultimate Premium edition that was Free Software would you be telling people to avoid it in favour of Linux, BSD, etc. in the hope that a few of them will switch (the current situation), or would you take more effective action and advocate the Free version of Vista to those who were going to get one version of Vista anyway? Of course Vista is still full of crap, but that could be sorted out with access to the source.

PS: Sorry for the terrible analogy<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)

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