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Apple Hides Account Info in DRM-Free Music
Alvis Dark writes "Apple launched iTunes Plus earlier today, the fruit of its agreement with EMI to sell DRM-free music. What they didn't say is that all DRM-free tracks have the user's full name and account e-mail embedded in them. Is this to discourage people from throwing the tracks up on their favorite P2P platform? 'It would be trivial for iTunes to report back to Apple, indicating that "Joe User" has M4As on this hard drive belonging to "Jane Userette," or even "two other users." This is not to say that Apple is going to get into the copyright enforcement business. What Apple and indeed the record labels want to watch closely is, will one user buy music for his five close friends?'"
music always know where to find you.
You can right click on the file and convert it to mp3, which would erase all tracks.
;)
Its not trivial if you have a one button mouse!
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
Someone needs to write a program that inserts Bill Gates name and email address into the tags. Only he has enough money to pay of the MAFIAA.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
An easy way for me and my 1,203,382 roommates to keep track of what belongs to who ;)
"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again."
--The Decider, 2002
why? forty-two.
Apple has a two-button mouse, they just hid one of the buttons on the keyboard...
Like 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0?
I am a free slashdotter. I will not be modded, blogged, DRM'd, patented, podcasted or RFID'd. My life is my own.
Quit being so paranoid. It's there so if you lose your MP3s whoever finds them knows where to return them!
"Unless you're actually planning to break the law by sharing the songs, I don't see what the problem is."
+1 Defending Apple
-1 Contradicting Prevailing Slashdot Groupthink
What's a mod to do??
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
My licence plate is an anchor, you insensitive clod.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Call me old fashioned, but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating - Bender
How can you expect them to understand about commandline programs? Apple only invented the commandline a few years ago. Adjusting to new, innovative technology takes time!
Well, nothing now. Since you posted ;)
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
This comment is probably a bit late for anyone to read, but a REALLY smart P2P client would strip any identifying tags and replace them with the details of RIAA executives
Sigh. Did you not read the part of my comment where I specifically talked about the laptops?
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Uh, NO. This is Slashdot! I saw only the piece I wanted to comment on, then stopped there! This is Slashdot and I don't NEED TO READ THE FREAKIN' WHOLE THING IN ORDER TO FORM AN OPINION, MAN! Get that straight. I don't get facts get in the way, and real logic isn't all that relevant!
Oh wait, this is
Eh.... Touche?
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
>Moreover, I don't like the idea of a portable device having thousands of internal copies of my real name and email address
Dude, you need to chill. Seriously. Because, you know, every time you send an email using SMTP that data is transmitted through who knows how many networking devices -- unencrypted. Which is way more insecure in theory than you randomly losing your iPod.
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away."
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
What's sort of funny is that you will literally be able to email the person and mock them directly. This really opens up new avenues for internet interaction: We can personally thank our mp3 file sharing benefactors, we can mock them for inadvertently disclosing their email, or we can rag on them for their musical tastes.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
A really, really smart client would replace it with contact info of various politicians...
..and a REALLT REALLY smart client would strip the RIAA executives...
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