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EMI's files, as sold by Apple, come with the buyer's name and e-mail address embedded in the file's header, where it can be easily read.
Well, I only bought the one. Not sure if I'll continue. Although the one DRM-free song I bought is probably the one I'd be most embarassed by having my name attached to, it being a Spice Girls number and all.
I can't imagine it was very long after the DRM-free watermarked media were available before some sort of stripping program was on the 'net.
Can't be arsed, for now.
Are there any ill-consequences of using purportedly "legal" DRM stripping?
ita, I'm led to understand that all songs bought from iTunes have that information in the metadata. Not just the DRM-free ones.
I'm led to understand that all songs bought from iTunes have that information in the metadata.
Yup. That's how they know whose file it originally was. But those files never went anywhere (what with being unusable and all), so I didn't mind. Not that I'm going to send my copies of the DRM-free music blazing across the internet, but the more portable the file gets the less I want my personal info in it.
unusable? You could always burn the purchased songs to a CD-Audio disc, give as many copies as you want to folks, and they could re-rip it in if they want. I don't know if the tags floated with the CD-Audio disc or not, but you could still share. It just took an extra step.
Heh. In writing up my problem, I think I found the solution. Thanks, hivemind!
In writing up my problem, I think I found the solution. Thanks, hivemind!
Shucks, it was literally nothing! Glad to be of help like this, any time!
You could always burn the purchased songs to a CD-Audio disc, give as many copies as you want to folks, and they could re-rip it in if they want. I don't know if the tags floated with the CD-Audio disc or not, but you could still share. It just took an extra step.
Which is exactly what I do, but in that scenario the email address in the file isn't relevant, because I'm not sharing that file--I'm sharing that song.
However, in a DRM-free world, I can share the file itself, and therefore that's when my information goes out into the wild.