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?'"

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Apple updates sending AppleTV into a loop

[Anonymous Coward]

According to the Apple support forums, unplugging and rebooting your apple TV today will cause major problems, most likely due to the unit phoning home....beware

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID= 977667&tstart=0

Re:Apple, Sony, Microsoft..

[Anonymous Coward]

This story appeared on Digg this morning. Pretty much everyone who brought up the privacy implications of storing this info in the files was dugg down. Then again, considering that Digg tends to attract the double digit IQ demographic, I'm not really all that surprised.

Re:The advantage then of buying real CD's

[twiddlingbits]

SOOOO, I can buy a used handgun quicker and easier than buying a Used CD?? How strange!