Apple Hides Account Info in DRM-Free Music

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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @05:17PM from the tabs-keeping-tabs dept.

Alvis Dark writes "Apple launched iTunes Plus earlier today, the fruit of its agreement with EMI to sell DRM-free music. What they didn't say is that all DRM-free tracks have the user's full name and account e-mail embedded in them. Is this to discourage people from throwing the tracks up on their favorite P2P platform? 'It would be trivial for iTunes to report back to Apple, indicating that "Joe User" has M4As on this hard drive belonging to "Jane Userette," or even "two other users." This is not to say that Apple is going to get into the copyright enforcement business. What Apple and indeed the record labels want to watch closely is, will one user buy music for his five close friends?'"

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[Russian Accent] Never have to find music... (Score:3, Funny)

by sehlat ( 180760 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @05:21PM (#19327855)

music always know where to find you.

Re:[Russian Accent] Never have to find music... (Score:2, Funny)

by DCstewieG ( 824956 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @05:23PM (#19327913)

In Soviet Russia, DRM-free music shares you!

apologies...

Re:Trivial to remove (Score:5, Funny)

by vertinox ( 846076 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @05:30PM (#19328047)

You can right click on the file and convert it to mp3, which would erase all tracks.

Its not trivial if you have a one button mouse! ;)

How long till it's spoofed? (Score:5, Funny)

by twitter ( 104583 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @05:48PM (#19328357) Homepage Journal

Someone needs to write a program that inserts Bill Gates name and email address into the tags. Only he has enough money to pay of the MAFIAA.

Cool (Score:5, Funny)

by hurfy ( 735314 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @05:50PM (#19328399)

An easy way for me and my 1,203,382 roommates to keep track of what belongs to who ;)

You got that motto wrong :) (Score:5, Funny)

by GoodbyeBlueSky1 ( 176887 ) writes: <joeXbanks.hotmail@com> on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @05:54PM (#19328483)

"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again."
--The Decider, 2002

Re:Trivial to remove (Score:5, Funny)

by evanbd ( 210358 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @06:04PM (#19328631)

Apple has a two-button mouse, they just hid one of the buttons on the keyboard...

Re:the acid test (Score:3, Funny)

by click2005 ( 921437 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @06:08PM (#19328693)

Like 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0?

Just like my underwear... (Score:3, Funny)

by precogpunk ( 448371 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @06:14PM (#19328825) Journal

Quit being so paranoid. It's there so if you lose your MP3s whoever finds them knows where to return them!

Re:the acid test (Score:3, Funny)

by goldspider ( 445116 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @06:22PM (#19328991) Homepage

"Unless you're actually planning to break the law by sharing the songs, I don't see what the problem is."

+1 Defending Apple
-1 Contradicting Prevailing Slashdot Groupthink

What's a mod to do??

Re:The advantage then of buying real CD's (Score:5, Funny)

by StikyPad ( 445176 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @06:22PM (#19329005) Homepage

My licence plate is an anchor, you insensitive clod.

Re:The advantage then of buying real CD's (Score:5, Funny)

by jpetts ( 208163 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @06:33PM (#19329193)

the media industry has historically fought against even the existance of blank recording media and recorders
You spelt "hysterically" wrong...

Re:The advantage then of buying real CD's (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @07:11PM (#19329757)

How can you expect them to understand about commandline programs? Apple only invented the commandline a few years ago. Adjusting to new, innovative technology takes time!

Re:the acid test (Score:3, Funny)

by complete loony ( 663508 ) writes: <Jeremy.Lakeman@g ... m minus caffeine> on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @07:25PM (#19329925)

Well, nothing now. Since you posted ;)

Re:The advantage then of buying real CD's (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @08:38PM (#19330703)

This comment is probably a bit late for anyone to read, but a REALLY smart P2P client would strip any identifying tags and replace them with the details of RIAA executives

Re:Trivial to remove (Score:4, Funny)

by mcrbids ( 148650 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @08:58PM (#19330863) Journal

Sigh. Did you not read the part of my comment where I specifically talked about the laptops?

Uh, NO. This is Slashdot! I saw only the piece I wanted to comment on, then stopped there! This is Slashdot and I don't NEED TO READ THE FREAKIN' WHOLE THING IN ORDER TO FORM AN OPINION, MAN! Get that straight. I don't get facts get in the way, and real logic isn't all that relevant!

Oh wait, this is /.

Eh.... Touche?

Re:the acid test (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @09:10PM (#19330979)

>Moreover, I don't like the idea of a portable device having thousands of internal copies of my real name and email address

Dude, you need to chill. Seriously. Because, you know, every time you send an email using SMTP that data is transmitted through who knows how many networking devices -- unencrypted. Which is way more insecure in theory than you randomly losing your iPod.

Re:Just like a used car (Score:4, Funny)

by BorgCopyeditor ( 590345 ) writes: on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @11:21PM (#19332107)

"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away."

Re:The advantage then of buying real CD's (Score:3, Funny)

by Ohreally_factor ( 593551 ) writes: on Thursday May 31, 2007 @05:13AM (#19334205) Journal

What's sort of funny is that you will literally be able to email the person and mock them directly. This really opens up new avenues for internet interaction: We can personally thank our mp3 file sharing benefactors, we can mock them for inadvertently disclosing their email, or we can rag on them for their musical tastes.

Re:The advantage then of buying real CD's (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday May 31, 2007 @07:51AM (#19335065)

A really, really smart client would replace it with contact info of various politicians...

Re:The advantage then of buying real CD's (Score:2, Funny)

by consonant ( 896763 ) writes: <shrikant.nNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Thursday May 31, 2007 @08:09AM (#19335197) Homepage

..and a REALLT REALLY smart client would strip the RIAA executives...

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[Russian Accent] Never have to find music... (Score:3, Funny)

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Re:Trivial to remove (Score:5, Funny)

How long till it's spoofed? (Score:5, Funny)

Cool (Score:5, Funny)

You got that motto wrong :) (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Trivial to remove (Score:5, Funny)

Re:the acid test (Score:3, Funny)

Just like my underwear... (Score:3, Funny)

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