i actually got so desperate i tried iTunes.
the thing is that there is a much smaller selection of songs.. which wasn't toooo bad.
but the thing that really got to me is the mp4 format.
cant play my songs in winamp or burn them.. not to my knowledge anyways

and actually above that. there is a no campus wide network connection for some reason. just within each building which sorta sucks bc i cant use iTunes to its full potential even if i wanted to use it

@Morgwen: The question is not, what you can download, but what you would buy.

High-Speed Users would pay more than 56k Users (I just let them out of it, because I thought it not so relevant... the idea has already been thought about a bit more than only in my head, but I didn't post the whole thing). For those you could use 50c or similar, because they also pay quite dearly for connection time and can't really download as much as DSL-Users, especially flatrate-users.

That way the industry gets money as with the system we have for CDs in Germany: You pay a bit for every CD-Recorder and every blank CD you have, regardless of your usage of it. For that you are allowed to copy music for close friends and relatives.
Same oes for tape-recorders and video-recorders, and it was always the same battle.

Users have a simple way to bypass the distribution model of the industry and it is being agreed on, that they pay a fee to be allowed to use it (which the industry gets to compensate their real losses).

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Canada has also been taxing blank media since 1995 (almost 9 years) to compensate copyright holders for "internet" infrigement. So far Canada has paid out $26 million . I'm sure the industry wants more, and users wish to pay less, but the compromise has kept Canadian p2p'ers protected so far. The CRIAA will keep trying . . .

Last December the copyright holders tried to get the ISP's to pay, but the case was turned down by our Supreme Court.

FYI, here's current tariff rates

• Audio cassettes of 40 minutes or more in length 29¢
  CD-R and CD-RW 21¢
  CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio and MiniDisc 77¢
  Non-removable memory permanently embedded in a digital audio recorder – no more than 1GB $2
  Non-removable memory permanently embedded in a digital audio recorder – more than 1GB but no more than 10GB $15
  Non-removable memory permanently embedded in a digital audio recorder –more than 10GB $25