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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. Re:So... by daveschroeder · · Score: 1, Redundant

    People have done that:

    http://www.macrumors.com/2007/06/01/apple-using-st eganography-in-itunes-plus-songs/

    That's why they thought that Apple might be using steganography. It turns out, though, that the AAC data is 100% identical and that the differences were a result in different metadata (modification dates) in the files:

    http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3696625 &postcount=123

    So, Apple is indeed not using steganography or other hidden watermarking on the files.

  2. Re:Right click, Convert to AAC/MP3/etc. by blhack · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So it is okay that they embed your user info into the track because they have been doing it for a while? People have been downloading music from P2P networks for a while now too....does that mean it is okay?

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