Australian users can upgrade their already purchased tracks to DRM-free via the store as they become available for 50 cents a track.
Take that, idiots who thought they were doing the right thing and bought legal copies of songs from iTunes before now.
Seriously, how do you defend that? What conceivable justification can there be for Apple and the record companies to screw their paying customers - the more loyal they were, the worse they're screwed - out of money for absolutely nothing? For removing the idiotic limitations they should never have pointlessly inflicted on them in the first place?
If that doesn't drive those people to piracy, I don't know what will.
On an related point - in which a bought product is deliberately crippled compared with the illegal one - I should never, ever see the following words when I press I press a menu or scene change button on an DVD - "operation prohibited by disc".
WTF? Who the hell thought it was a good idea to tell consumers what they can and can't see on a DVD they've bought? Who thinks that'll encourage them to decline the scourge of internet piracy? (Acquaintances who've checked the issue out report that you never see "operation prohibited" on a pirated video.)
Remember this, next time they come around begging about the scourge of piracy and demanding that our elected representatives waste more of our public money - money that should be spent on schools and hospitals and policing real crime - on enforcing their imagined "rights".
