Ok, so my daughter watched Rozen Maiden, and said, "Dad, I want that song 
for my iPod."

Sounds reasonable enough.  For 99 cents, I can probably get it from iTunes. 
Right?  Uh, no.  No problem, let's check Amazon.  Nope.  Hmmm...  I've got 
an idea.  I bet I can get it from iTunes Japan!  I'm so smart!

So, I change my iTunes country to Japan, and do a search.  Yep!  There it 
is!  Ok, let's download it for whatever it costs after converting Yen to US 
dollars.  At this point, I don't care if it's $2 or $3.  Not a problem for 
me.

Gee.  If I change my country to Japan and iTunes finds out that I don't 
actually, physically reside there, I will get into big trouble with them. 
At least that's what they say.  They'll block my account.  Dangit!  Now 
what?

Well, maybe I can buy the whole album from somewhere for cheap.  Think 
again!  Imported CD's cost 2 to 3 times as much as a regular CD (often $40 
or more), plus I really only want this one song.

Ok, I guess it's time for me to start Googling, and hopefully I can find an 
mp3 out there somewhere, and obtain the music illegally, having pretty much 
exhausted all other options.  Yep.  There it is.  Whew.  I finally got it.

Ok, so let's get this thing on my daughter's iPod Shuffle.  I plug it into 
my computer at work, where I downloaded the mp3, I start up iTunes and try 
to copy the mp3 to it.  Uh, I can't.  Why?  Because that iPod is 
synchronized with another computer.  Which computer?  One that was in my 
basement, which recently got flooded.  But all the songs are on the iPod, so 
can't I just copy them off onto this computer, then put them back on? 
HAHAHAHA  Yeah, right!  If they allowed that, well, then you could 
distribute music ILLEGALLY!  OMG!!!  IT MUST BE PREVENTED!!!

Eventually, I figured out how to copy the song file onto the iPod, but it 
still won't play it, because I copied it as a file, not as a song.  Well, at 
least it's on the iPod now...

Finally, I get home and hook up the old computer from the flooded basement 
(the computer never got wet, but I couldn't use it down there).  After 
spending an hour getting the computer up and running again, I'm finally able 
to copy the mp3 (that I downloaded illegally from the Internet) from her 
iPod, back onto her iPod in a playable format.


In an alternate universe, here's how things could have gone:
"Dad, I want that song."
"Ok honey, let's check iTunes...  It's not on the iTunes US site, but they 
say that for $2.99, we can download it from iTunes in Japan.  Let's just pay 
$2.99 for it."
"Thank you father!  I love you so much!  And I love my iPod too!"
"Me too, honey.  Me too..."
*Hugs*

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