I don't see how this would work. It makes the argument that if a CA were under the authority of a government (e.g. China) then it could redirect you to a fake Gmail site but you would think it was actually Gmail. Wouldn't this also require the DNS to be controlled by a government? And even if they did redirect you to a fake site... you'd know it was a fake site because your email wouldn't be there, because you weren't accessing Gmail but a different server. The most they could get you to do (possibly) is divulge your password, right?

Who's being monopolistic? Windows Media Player will play its format and MP3. iTunes will play its format and MP3. Unfortunately all of my stuff is in Windows Media Player format. iTunes won't SAVE downloaded files in MP3 format, so I can't play iTunes in WMP (or RealOne, as far as I know, though I don't use that format). Basically we have two siblings who won't talk to each other -- they'll only talk to a third party (i.e. mp3). I should have scanned everything in MP3... but I don't want to go back and rescan. If iTunes is going to make it hard for me to convert (by making me rescan my whole library) then I won't convert at all. Which is my point. If they raise a barrier that requires me to spend my time - which I have a very limited quantity of - to switch from one system to another, then its not worth it to me... especially when, to my ears, iTunes doesn't play music any better or worse. I'd rather buy the same tracks from Napster, for the same price, but be able to play them in WMP. (Napster has roughly the same number of the kinds of tracks that I'm looking for, anyway.)