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Legal Downloads.

Feb 24, 2006 8:40PM PST

Quite a nice little thing about legal downloads from iTunes.

Recently I bought my dad a 5th Gen 60GB iPod (in black.)

He used to download from P2P sites as there was a copy or Ares on his computer. (I was using it for LEGAL applications).

Anyway, with his iPod and computer, i set up for him an iTunes account. Not being the most technical user I doubt he would have ever done it himself.

I explained what iTunes was, how it worked amazingly with the iPod and I also explained how the Music Store worked. I also made a point of explaining to him how the music was LEGAL and how his Credit Card would be billed for his downloads.

Well what do you know, Three days later, he has spent over

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