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Not Quite an ‘Unchained Melody’ After All?

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Remnants of DRM still remain in Apple’s DRM-free iTunes.

Apparently, the urge to embed private user information was just too great to overcome. Was this just a dirty trick to track songs? Surely they knew that it wouldn’t take long for a hacker to discover this. All kinds of privacy issues exist with embedding private information into music files. The same problems with figuring out exactly who shared what still exist. The only thing that can be proven is who bought the song.

This is very disappointing.

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