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iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info
r2k writes "Apple's iTunes Plus files are DRM-free, but sharing the files on P2P networks may be an extremely bad idea. A report published by CNet highlights the fact that the account information and email address of the iTunes account holder is hidden inside each and every DRM-free download. I checked, and I found I couldn't access the information using an ID3 tag editor, but using Notepad I found my email address stored inside the audio file itself."
As a member of the iTunes Police, I take strong exception to this. Firearms safety has always been a core tenet of iTP training. An iTP officer will only open fire if a copyright violation is in progress, or the officer has reasonable belief that lethal force is the only way to prevent a copyright violation.
iTunes Police would never "come crashing through a window with guns blazing". The very thought of it!
3laws: No freebies, no backsies, GTFO.
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I'd whip you with my Pear Anjou cables, but I've just finished burning them in and aligning the natural resonance using my interocitor.
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
Whining, bitching and moaning. Another /. day...
I don't usually troll (or try not to) but what kind of numbnuts is surprised or offended by this. And the hypotheticals (what if I lost a HDD with only music, I'd be recognizable) are so moronic that I had to catch my breath before ranting.
What imbeciles.
We have the choice of buying non crippled music with our monogram on super conveniently, buy crippled music conveniently or buy (usually) non-crippled music inconveniently (CDs, mail order or brick and mortar store).
Buy the music in the form that suits you. I'll keep using iTMS because it's convenient and because it's relatively fair.
But then I have this funny feeling that the people bitching the most over this are probably not buying music that much. But may have large music libraries anyway.
Just fucking buy the stuff you really like, ok. Support the artists you feel truly excel.And not another goddamned whine about your purchase having your name printed on it.
Fucking whiners.
Also, last I checked, Steve Jobs didn't repeatedly smash your face into a MacBook keyboard whilst pointing a shotgun at your head with his free hand until you bought music from iTunes. If you don't want it, don't buy it.
Actually, Steve Jobs did repeatedly smash my face into a MacBook keyboard whilst pointing a shotgun at my head with his free hand until I bought music from iTunes, you insensitive clod.
Poor MacBook.
"Also, last I checked, Steve Jobs didn't repeatedly smash your face into a MacBook keyboard whilst pointing a shotgun at your head with his free hand until you bought music from iTunes."
After THAT sort of treatment, did you really think we'd tell you anything?
The first rule of the Steve Jobs Beat Down is "don't talk about the beat down".
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If you think $500 headphones are high quality, you're sorely mistaken. http://www.stax.co.jp/ [stax.co.jp]
I only have one question regarding those $5,000 headphones: Can I get them with a white wire? ;)
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We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Yes. Yes you are.