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Do you own songs bought online?

13. May 2006, 23:48 Uhradmin

Like millions around the world, you have an iPod, the market-leading digital music player made by Apple Computer Inc. and have spent perhaps a few hundred dollars buying songs from the company’s iTunes music store.

But do you really own the tunes? Whether you do, however, depends on how you define ownership.

“Owning implies control and if you bought the tracks on iTunes you don’t have complete control,” said Rob Enderle, president of market researcher the Enderle Group.

Those songs you bought online from Apple play just fine, of course, so long you do so on the company’s iTunes digital jukebox software, on an iPod, burn a CD (you can only burn the same “playlist,” or collection of songs, seven times), or stream them wirelessly to your stereo using another Apple gizmo.

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