it is a lot of money, i'm still debating whether or not to get it.
i'm due for a resigning of contract so i will get the discounted price.

and how is itunes big brother?

if you know what you are doing there are so many ways around it, and who says you have to download your songs from itunes. just go to an outside source and use itunes as your media player and use it to transfer to the ipod.

c'mon peeps, you just have to be tech savy is all