[wjdennen]

Hi-

I don't mean to ask a really dumb question, but...

Everyone knows that you are allowed to play music purchased from the music store on 3 computers and an unlimited number of iPods.

What's to stop someone from sharing files with his or her friends -- just for them to play on their iPods? Would this even work?

I'm not trying to violate the rules -- only understand them a bit more.

http://www.info.apple.com/usen/itune..._authorization

"In a nutshell, your FairPlay agreement entitles you to play your music on up to three computers (and enjoy unlimited synching with iPods), allows unlimited burning for individual songs and lets you burn unchanged playlists up to 10 times each."

[GORDYmac]

The computer of the recipient would have to be one of the computers authorized to play the song, in order for the song to be transferred to the recipient's iPod. Otherwise, iTunes won't use it. As fas the direct approach. I don't think iPod will recognize songs manually added to it's music directories. I believe it uses the XML file stored in the iTunes library, or something like that file.

The simplest way is to burn the songs to CD.