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Apple's DRM Whack-a-Mole

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the ouch-ouch-ouch-ouch dept.

Mateo_LeFou writes "Gulf News has a nice piece exposing the last couple generations of Apple's DRM strategy (you didn't really think they were abandoning DRM, did you?). Article focuses on how quickly the tactics are worked around, and how nasty the latest one is: purchased iTunes now have your personal data in them. Author suspects that this is to prevent you uploading them to a network."

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  1. Slashdot degradation by AttilaSz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm reading Slashdot daily since, like, 2002. Lately there are lots of front page articles that point to totally worthless, totally wrong, ad bait content. This article, well, it was really a new low on dezinformation. I'm seriously starting to think "why in the world am I coming to this site, anyway?"

    Yea, mod me offtopic. Too bad there's no "+1 Disillusioned"

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  2. Re:Couldn't be more ranty, or wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It IS theft, hand-waving and attempts at rationalization aside.

    If you take something that isn't yours, something that you KNOW isn't yours, something that the owner didn't give you permission to take, something that you know the owner charges for, that's theft.

    Copyright infringement is simply one TYPE of theft, along with fraud, conversion, robbery, shoplifting, joyriding, etc.

  3. Re:WARNING: do not click sig link by that+this+is+not+und · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's no joke. GP clicked on the link and it logged him out of his little sister's account on Wikipedia.

    Now, that's gotta get a guy fuming enough to actually comment on a slashdot .sig

  4. Re:WARNING: do not click sig link by angrykeyboarder · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Fortunately TinyUrl doesn't redirect transparently anymore (and Firefox shows the non-obfuscated URL on the TinyUrl page...).


    I hate to burst your bubble but...

    1. TinyURL does continue to redirect transparantly and
    2. Any web browser would display what you saw.

    The key factor being that the poster of the URL used TinyURL's new "preview" feature (which is in fact a good thing on the part of the poster).

    The URL used was http://preview.tinyurl.com/3atqbt (note the "preview") part of it.

    It can also be used as http://tinyurl.com/3atqbt. Both point to the same place. One just gives you an intermediate stop.

    Go to http://tinyurl.com/, make the URL of your choice "tiny" and you'll be presented with both options.

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    Scott

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