The sound quality is good when connected to my Sony hi-fi system. Sometimes it takes a few seconds (up to 5) for the track to start playing, but that was to be expected when using a hard-disk based system (probaly the disk goes to sleep to save power). Often the playback starts immediately. So far there hasn't been a single problem. I managed to move my music and start using the system even without reading the (very short) user guide.

The only problem with iPod is really understanding that all my music is in that little box. Should I get rid of the original cd's?

Kevin Kelly on Copyrights©. As Jack Valenti, the chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, has pointed out, digitizing films is expensive. "Who is going to digitize these public domain movies?" he asks.

I have an answer: movie buffs. Not only have fans moved almost all of music into the digital era, they have been busy moving hundreds of millions of documents onto the Web and are producing millions of pages of daily reporting and news in Weblogs. And without the help of paralyzed publishers, avid readers have already converted nearly 20,000 books in the public domain. [Smart Mobs]