What the heck is it with this eye-tunes stuff? I recently wanted to view a Quicktime movie on my Windows machine - and had to get the quicktime player on the machine I was using. But Apple.com wouldn't download a copy of the quicktime movie player, unless it could install Itunes as well. No problem - I let it install - but it started doing the same sort of nonsense that REAL always annoyed me with - setting all the default preferences for audio files to quicktime and wanting to make itself the default media player in my machine. Then to top it all off - when I tried to use Itunes - the site tells me that I need a US billing address to download music. Bah - where's my copy of Kazaa ++ lite?

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