Why cant you download music on a public computer?

Answer 1

It's not that you can't ever download music from public computers, but it's challenging for a number of reasons. First of all, it's more or less impossible with an iPod, because you need the iTunes software (more or less) to put music onto your ipod and about 99.9% of public computers will not allow you to download software onto their computers. Some mp3 players can act as external storage devices (including the ipod if it's set up correctly within itunes beforehand) in that case music can be downloaded onto them, but the catch (at my library at least) is that the right click has been disabled, and a lot of free music downloads require a right click. There are ways to work around that too, but it gets complicated. So to answer your question it is very difficult to download music onto public computers, because of security restraints imposed upon those computers by the administrators.