The first and foremost reson is because you don't own the music you pay for (it's in the EULA). You own a lisence to listen to that music. Think about it, you purchase.... let's say "NoFx - Louise" through iTunes, you drop it on your iPod, and listen to it for about a week, and you have a system crash, now if be possible to get that back but it's damn sure not easy. And there also the issue of upgrading your hard drive, one you do, you're kinda screwed. You've purchased all this music with the idea that you own it and one hadware failue and the greneral consumer is out usually 100 bux.
Now I'm not just picking on iTunes, I feel this way about all music wrapped in layer after layer of DRM (URGE included). And the funny thing is most people seem unaware that there are alternatives. With sites like emusic & magnatune it's damn easy to purchase (and own) non DRM-ed music (there's also the option of allofmp3 if you're on a budget, though their legalitys are questionable). Once you purchase something from these site you can easily burn yourself an MP3 cd that will work in a bunch of after-market as well as a few factory car cd players. And it's also easy to archive it.
That's enough from me. I would just reccomend thinking about ways to increse the longevity of your purchases, it's never to difficult re-purchase a Madona CD, but it's not always easy to find a rare Mark Faria track. But if you are gettign coporate sponsored music I suggest pirating it and paying artists like Kolea.
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