I fear that this will be used as a club by the RIAA to force more painful DRM onto the ITMS.

I have no philosophical objections to Linux users being able to play the music they purchased from ITMS on their Linux boxes and frankly Apple should have had something to allow this either before now or at least in the pipeline.

>"We're about to find out what Apple really thinks about Fair Use," Johansen told The Register via email.

I find this statement disingenuous, however.