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Using iTunes to share music at schools...

This isn't a question, just a point I felt like posting...

I was talking to a friend this afternoon and apparently now that iTunes is out for Windows, anyone into music is getting it, especially college students.

Does anyone remember the feature in iTunes that was used to share songs and playlists over the internet by connecting to another computer?

Anyway, Apple disabled that feature because it promoted the illegal sharing of songs, but now another similar thing is catching on. Apparently, now at colleges and universities students just have to open up iTunes, turn on sharing, and are bombarded with the playlists of fellow students. Since it works on Windows, I predict that now nearly every student will be running iTunes and sharing with this method.

Just thought I would bring that up for discussion...

John Ganotis
http://www.benandjohnshow.com
[912 byte] By [jg673] at [2007-11-9 15:02:09]
# 1 Re: Using iTunes to share music at schools...
I noticed the sharing setting but didn't know what it was for. I don't understand you completely here. Are you saying that on a LAN music can be shared between computers? That kind of goes without saying doesn't it?
loGan at 2007-11-15 17:31:12 >
# 2 Re: Using iTunes to share music at schools...
The playlists in all the other people on your network's iTunes libraries come up with your playlists if they are sharing and you have sharing enabled. This is interesting because it allows people to listen to other people's libraries, however the actual files can not be copied through iTunes...

JOHN
jg673 at 2007-11-15 17:32:20 >
# 3 Re: Using iTunes to share music at schools...
I think you can only connect up to 5 computers i read somewhere.
Kharn at 2007-11-15 17:33:18 >
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