College students seem to like iTunes, Apple’s popular online music library, but many of them aren’t fond of its download price of 99 cents per song. Now some enterprising undergraduates have found a way to have their cake and eat it, too: Programs like MyTunes and OurTunes, designed by students, override iTunes’ antipiracy features and let people use the software to swap songs freely over their networks. Many students think that trading copyrighted songs on iTunes is legal because the enabling software appears to be legitimate.
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