Why cant I play my songs from my iPod touch on other computers?

I know I'm kind of ranting, sorry, but I am very curious. I did a quick search trying to find information on this and I didn't have much luck.
I have multiple personal computers. A desktop at home, a laptop for school/work and then multiple computers at my school's library.
How come I can play music on any computer from my nano but not my touch? It's SO annoying. I can bring up my music library on any computer but all the songs are grayed out and I'm not able to actually play them.

Hello carmidy,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
In order to play music on your iPod through multiple computers, you will have to set it up to manually manage its contents by enabling this option from under your iPod's Summary tab in iTunes. Keep in mind that manually managing your iPod's contents is much different than having it set to automatically sync with your iTunes libraries.
For more help on using your iPod with multiple computers, see this Apple support document.
[Using iPod with multiple computers |http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1202]
B-rock

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