Apple's DRM Whack-a-Mole

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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Re:WARNING: do not click sig link

[angrykeyboarder]

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.