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They are not supposed to be sold outright, in theory. 
t snicker, chortle, guffaw
Remembering Microsoft support days:  "No, ma'am, I'm sorry, but six other people in two other states have registered that product already.  No, ma'am, I can't give you support for a non-registered product.  Not even if you ask nicely.  Especially not if you swear at me.  Good-bye, ma'am."
	
 
		
		
What does OEM mean? 
In this context, they mean the stereo that comes included with a new car.
	
 
		
		
Goodnight Nova.  You were Supr.
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Rather interesting opinion article on the Bittorrent stuff: [link] Says that the MPAA's actions are just going to incite hackers to come up with a better tool--say, a version of Bittorrent that's decentralized.
And this CNET article says that the Nova that was supr folks are already working on one: [link]
	
 
		
		
Wasn't November when Bittorent added porn?
	
 
		
		
as of November, 35% of all traffic on the Internet was BitTorrent-related
I've heard that stat a lot. I've also seen it disputed.
	
 
		
		
Where/how is the best place to get one song online?  I've seen you mention various places, but I'm willing to drop a dollar or so just to get a copy of Ozzy's "Mama I'm Comin' Home."  I've got a dial-up connection on Win98 with IE6.  There's got to be some place that panders to my run-of-the-mill setup.
	
 
		
		
Have you tried iTunes?
Which reminds me -- MusicMatch JukeBox has a super-tagging feature which tries to look up an MP3 in the CDDB based on its filename.  Very good for clearing up stuff that was sloppily tagged.
I can't find that functionality in iTunes.  Does it exist?