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DEL.ICIO.USDoes iTunes invade your privacy?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Downloading a tune from Apple’s iTunes puts your privacy at risk if this article from the London Times is correct.
It says that, hidden in the data file that contains the music, are your e-mail address and other personal information. If that’s true, the notion behind it is pretty simple.
If you share the music that you download with others, there would be a way to trace the transaction back to you.
The Electronic Freedom Foundation is responsible for the discovery of the hidden information.
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By Trevis
June 4, 2007 10:06 PM | Link to this
No i is nmot an invasion of privacy, because you give up that information when you buy things from the itunes music store. Embeding that information in the file is an excellent idea because it still alows tracking and the removal of the digital rights management that locks tracks to a particular format. If record labels were to take their heads out of their money bags for a second and look at what the market is demanding they would see that drm is not what people want and the money from digital sales would grow if they removed it. That said many people, such as myself, will not stop buying physical copies of the media.