I guess he just didn't notice details like the fact that surround sound won't work in World of Warcraft (and plenty of others) with his Audigy 2 soundcard on Vista, thanks to Microsoft's removal of the Hardware Abstraction Layer.
...you're completely wrong; it's trivial to retrieve the songs from an iPod. The iPod does *not* stop you from uploading its songs to your computer; iTunes merely does not provide a convenient way to do so.
There are dozens of third-party utilities that allow you to do this. The easiest way is to just copy the files off of the iPod using your favorite file copying utility (something exotic like Windows Explorer).
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I guess he just didn't notice details like the fact that surround sound won't work in World of Warcraft (and plenty of others) with his Audigy 2 soundcard on Vista, thanks to Microsoft's removal of the Hardware Abstraction Layer.
...you're completely wrong; it's trivial to retrieve the songs from an iPod. The iPod does *not* stop you from uploading its songs to your computer; iTunes merely does not provide a convenient way to do so. There are dozens of third-party utilities that allow you to do this. The easiest way is to just copy the files off of the iPod using your favorite file copying utility (something exotic like Windows Explorer).