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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."
They are putting your info in the song without telling you. That's rude. And when that sort of stuff is done on the sly, it makes you wonder what else is in there? Is my address? Credit Card number? iTunes account #? Some super-secret tracking number? Is it going to be a problem to put it on my wife's computer now, since they are still tracking it? What if my son's friends copy all my music someday, and it ends up on a p2p network?
I just bought a new monitor. I don't expect my email address to be hidden on a slip of paper inside the case. It probably would never hurt anything if it was, but that shouldn't be done without at least notifying me, and properly shouldn't be done without my consent.
No one who lives outside of their mum's basement cares. Really. Your average MP3 player is not hifi, and your average consumer doesn't give two shits about the quality loss.
Actually they do, but they aren't aware of it. Just explain it to the awarage user that if he does "convert to *" 10 times he won't have any music left (citation needed), then it's going to be pretty clear. It's very important that we get music that we don't have to buy again, and again and again, which will be the result of selling MP3.
So please take your love to the music industry and Apple somewhere else.
he's never at work, that's for sure. Though he MAY be an alien asswipe, or he MAY be an islamic towel head stonie that eats lesbian waste. I don't know, but he MAY know not to know enough to know anything that MAY be true or MAY not be true.
If you think $500 headphones are high quality, you're sorely mistaken. http://www.stax.co.jp/
Common sense is not so common
you dumbass Mactard bitch