Sunday, June 03, 2007

Personal Info In iTunes Plus Music

There's a bit of a broohaha about Apple embedding personal info (the person's name and iTunes account username) into the DRM-free downloads. Geeks R Us has a nice little piece on why this doesn't matter, but they also forget to mention that iTunes purchases have always had the exact same information embedded in the files. I'm just extremely perplexed as to why there's any sort of issue at all...

1 comment:

Jesse said...

From the article:

So they didn’t tell people they were doing it? So what? Don’t pirate music and you won’t get burned.

That makes sense.

Now when the stolen iPod is recovered, I can prove its mine.

That makes sense. You are correct; there's nothing to see here.