[seanalltogether]

2. Exactly! What I'm reading from this announcement is "Create your own music library for $25 a year, the caveat being that you have to go steal the music first and present it to us, then we'll add it to your library"

[jfager]

The number of people who look at this as "now anytime I want music in my iTunes account, I need to go torrent it first", who weren't already active pirates, is going to be so miniscule it won't even matter.

This is for people with existing collections of questionable legality or other provenance, who otherwise wouldn't join the service if it meant they had to give all that music up.