lol i guess.

Use your eyes and actually read the article: "iPods sold between the years in question produced an error message prompting users to restore their device when tunes from a rival seller were detected"

that was between 2007 and 2009? I didn't own an ipod back then

I did notice how some songs went missing and I never deleted them.

Did you bother to read the article? Or are you to busy calling people ignorant to pull your head out of your own ass?

During that time period you COULD NOT put that music back on. They were locking you in to the Apple Store.

But why are we surprised? We all know that Apple is a company who does stuff like this.

Uh, if you restore your computer all your songs are gone too... That's why you should back them up

I bought an iPod then. I regularly put competing mp3s on my iPod shuffle, nano and an iPod which I sold because I just wasn't using it.....even free mp3s tons of them got put on my iPod/nano/shuffle. I had more free stuff than paid stuff by a long shot. It's hard for me to take this seriously, when in fact that you could already buy tunes from amazon, rhapsody and others in 2007 in addition to playing free stuff without issue. We had whole discussions on putting amazon and walmart tunes onto iPods and no one reported a problem. Not a single one. It just looks like they are throwing spaghetti on the wall to see what sticks. The truth is you could always put mp3s on your iPods without issue. I've even used other file formats that weren't as compressed as mp3s and they worked just fine.