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This past Wednesday, Apple finally began selling unprotected DRM-free tracks through the new iTunes Plus Store, and while the initial reaction by consumers has been very positive, a rather ugly fly has just been found in the ointment. It's been discovered that every track purchased through iTunes Plus contains information about the user who purchased it, including his or her name, account info, and e-mail address. This means that, should one of your iTunes Plus tracks happen to show up on a file-sharing site for others to download, the authorities/RIAA would easily be able to trace the leak back to you. At this time, however, it's unclear if this is the intended purpose of the embedded info.
Though it should be a fairly trivial thing for some intrepid programmer to come up with a small application to strip your tracks of anything that might finger you, we encourage you to play nice. After all, if too many iTunes Plus songs start showing up on file-sharing networks for all to download, it won't be long before Plus gets subtracted.
From BBC News
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsShawnJun 1st 2007 1:12PM
Your name and Apple ID were in the DRM-ed tracks as well. Nothing to see here, move along.
Trideep GogoiJun 3rd 2007 3:11PM
AND All music sites including your beloved e-music do it. Just cause e-music sells DRM free music does not mean they want the tracks to show up on kazaa...
CjOct 10th 2007 3:46PM
What gets me the most is that I've already purchased cds and have them in my collection. Once I included them on my computer, I can't paste them as my favorite music on my web page without having to go through YouTube or pay for the song again from Itunes. On my blog, I'm usually writing about my favorite artists. To me that's free advertisement for the the artist. Often after hearing the tune, others on the blog will go out and buy the shared tune.