I go to college. Normally to steal each others' music we have to go into the semi-clunky OS X appletalk file server interface and look for people kind enough to properly allow guest access. It can be useful, but it's time consuming and painful -- especially so because I know so many people have iTunes as this is still hugely a macintosh campus.

Then I saw a friend of mine with iTunes 4, showing me how other peoples' music automatically showed up -- and you couldn't copy it, but you could listen to it all damn day on the permanent college connection. I shat my pants. Here it is.. not napster, but good enough when you're at college and better in some respects (automatically finding new music really easily, plus the fact that, as my friend said, it made him want to buy many of the albums other people had so he could listen when their computers were off). I figured it could still be circumvented by going to the people who owned the computers and transferring the files manually, but that's good for us and bad for 'the man'.

So of course I ran home and installed iTunes 4. And of course it works, but, yes, the sharing functions require Jaguar.

FUCK YOU, APPLE. Fuck you for making me buy upgrades for a computer I bought less than a year ago. But good work in making the upgrades 'this makes your computer extra awesome' rather than 'this makes your computer perform basic functions'.