Questions about shared music

Hi everyone i just recently learned about how in itunes you can share your music and look at music on other itunes in your home. My question is what good is it? The only thing that i can see that you can do is play the song or show from that other computer, but you can not import it into the other itunes. Am i correct about this? Is there a way to import a song from a different mac's itunes in my home into my itunes? thanks in advance

The reason they do it is so you are not illegally allowing digital transfers of your music library. Authorizing and sharing are two different things. When you share your library, ANYBODY who can see your computer on a network who is running iTunes can then see your library. For example, say you live in an apartment building and someone is running an open wireless network to everyone in the building can hop on if they want and you are sharing your iTunes library. Everyone in the building, assuming they run iTunes, can pull up your library and listen to your music. If Apple made it so you could also import music off of shared libraries, you essentially would be running a mini-Napster in your apartment building. Neighborhoods with houses close to each other, college dorms, office buildings, etc. are all places were a LOT of people could potentially be able to access your shared library.
So the shared library is very useful/fun if you are in a place where a lot of people are on the same network and you can sample new and different stuff (think of it like having a lot of private custom radio stations available to you). If Apple had allowed free importing and copying of library files, then they would run up against the lawyers of the music industry. So they don't block that stuff just to be difficult to their users. They do it to keep their products legal and free of legal attacks.
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