This just ain't Apples week.

[paul_pci]

First, that battery thing comes to light. Now this...

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.js...&cvqh=itn_ipod

Actually, This was the main reason I went with a Sandisk player. I don't like being "coerced" into using only one supplier.

Your reason is pretty lame considering we're "coerced' into using one supplier for many of life's resources, services, and products. Like Microsoft hasn't asserted a long time monopoly over IE or their media files. Sychronization of sofware and hadware is not coercion. There is no proprietary monopoly here. I can take music from any commerical service, legal or not, and import files into iTunes and go from there. This is a non problem. The French should probably focus their efforts on eating less cheese and smoking less.