My initial thought on the iTunes article was that of agreement in regards to the legal reasoning that is discussed. Sharing music in a manner which teeters on the line of legality and not, the article is able to formulate a type of understood reasoning between what is okay to do and what is not. Showing iTunes as an exception to the rule, yet showing this “digital jukebox” as simply a place to organize, share, listen as well as do a type of “judging” of other’s digital jukeboxes.

I’ve never been one for the whole napster, limewire, bearshare, etc…world of downloading and stealing music. This way of getting music has just always seemed unethical to me. iTunes has become this sort of revolutionized, ethical manner in which to download music. By downloading music, one makes a sort of digital musical impression of him/herself. With the option to share his/her music, by turning their music sharing option on, friends and co-workers have the chance to view their libraries and make own personal judgments about one another’s library. In regards to viewing others music, those viewing must take into consideration the way iTunes works. Yes the obvious option to select and purchase songs according to personal preference with no outside influences is present, but iTunes has another trick. On the front page of iTunes is a section in the middle that states, “Just For You.” This section includes songs that iTunes has selected according to the type of music in which you the buyer have purchased in the past. It does the assuming and then the choosing for you the buyer. You the buyer see these songs and are more apt to purchase them because you think to yourself, how could iTunes be wrong? In doing this, your library becomes compromised in a way, polluting your “personally chosen” songs, and giving off a fake persona of what your library personality actually is and entails as well as the decision making that did not take place in choosing those “Just For You” songs. In a way, everyone’s iTunes music libraries are a bunch of frauds. By selecting even just a few songs, and purchasing them, iTunes branches off from these few songs to assume the next songs that we may supposedly purchase, thus portraying a false image of your library to those you're “sharing” with.