About a year ago I bought an iPod shuffle in a moment of weakness.

The wailing and gnashing of teeth went on continuously after that, everytime I tried to put music on my iPod from Linux.

Things got a bit easier when I got this Windows job, suddenly I could use iTunes!

But wait, I have two work laptops, and I've stopped using the other one on a regular basis.

So I just installed iTunes on this other work laptop, and iTunes will only let me ERASE the iPod if I want to put more music on the player!

Let me reiterate this to myself... I do not control the hardware I purchase, the manufacturers get to tell me how I can use the things I buy. This is not my hardware, it was just a donation to Apple, and they loaned me a dangerous device that must be kept under strict control.

No wait... Digital Restrictions Management is where customers are treated as criminals.

I will never again buy hardware from Apple, and I'll do my very best to never fund Digital Restrictions again.