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Your Top 10 Most Annoying Tech Products

You have spoken. More than 1300 of you answered our survey, and these were the products that bugged you the most.

3. Hated DRM: Apple iTunes, Microsoft Windows Media Player, Microsoft Zune, Napster (2003 to present) 3 of 10

The media players themselves are mostly fine, but their incompatible digital rights management (DRM) schemes drive you nuts. Despite Apple's recent decision to sell some DRM-free songs, most iTunes tunes still play only on iPods, a couple of Motorola phones, or a computer with iTunes software on it. (And the DRM-free songs cost 30 cents more.) Microsoft has said it will "soon" sell DRM-free music for the Zune. We'll see.

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