iTunes update spies on your listening and sends it to Apple?

God, and I thought Steve Jobs was a Democrat.

God, with no instructions, with no advance warning, who is the PRICK who thought this up.  And what’s the advantage to the customer?  Put Apple first.  Put the labels first.  And the consumer abandons you.  God, it’s not QUITE enough to get me to stop using iTunes, but one more step…

Really, how about a mea culpa here Apple.  And an immediate fix. 

Or do you have to be sued by the attorney general of Texas first, like Sony BMG.

I mean COME ON!  You do this with NO NOTICE!  Not even a lengthy incomprehensible EULA (End User License Agreement)?

Utterly astounding.  Who the fuck are your lawyers ANYWAY??