Comments on: Not so cool DRM-free tracks from iTunes

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:34:39 +0000

look at how many $pple shills/apologists there are here.

if micro$oft $ucked its users, everyone would be up in arms yet look at how $pple screws the public and yet there are so many defending them…

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:34:09 +0000

look at how many $pple shills/apologists there are here.

if micro$oft fucked its users, everyone would be up in arms yet look at how $pple screws the public and yet there are so many defending them…

By: Jug

Jug — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:03:49 +0000

I don’t care about that metadata really. Big deal… If you do care, just rip it out. At least they have a legal way to support the artists (yes, and music industry) now that doesn’t include DRM.

By: se7en

se7en — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:04:08 +0000

MacRumors conducts an independent investigation and they conclude that there is NO
stenography going on.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3696360&postcount=111

By: ghfghf

ghfghf — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:17:40 +0000

I want to share music with my friends. I don’t want Apple or any other company stopping me from sharing my interests. This bs is from weird robot types pretending to be human…they have no friends, no culture, no creativity…they’re not human…just money-grabbing robots…

By: Lightning

Lightning — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 07:27:57 +0000

You see all you really have to do is hex them out. As far as I know the song still plays. If you really want to have fun with it change the name in the hex code to steve jobs Owner of Macintosh. Or Use fake names when dealing with anything on the internet like most normal people.

By: wow

wow — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:29:07 +0000

I think it boils down to anyone who thought iTunes was palletable to begin with think it’s better now. Those of us who think it is an amazingly overcomplicated, bloated, pointless, inconvenient waste of time, still think so.

My kids wanted iPods because they were cool, so I’ve had to deal with “iStuff”. The best part about my own generic “uncool” mp3 player is that all I deal with are plain old standard simple drop and drag music files that I can put anywhere I want. This whole Apple thing confuses me.

By: Raey

Raey — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:16:51 +0000

I think its fair that they some how embed a way of tracking and identifying a particular file and whom and where it was downloaded from, in the exact same way workprints and screeners have copy numbers, etc… but including names, email addresses etc. so people outside of apple itunes store can access personal information is wrong…

By: ac

ac — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:05:56 +0000

You can just hex edit the name out, still plays

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:57:49 +0000

If the songs never leave your pc or mp3 player, who cares if they contain personal information. People are only worried because when they pirate this shit all over the internet, they might get caught!

By: MellowHexagon

MellowHexagon — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:52:32 +0000

I’m beginig to get a bit annoyed at people who seem to hate music sold to them just for the fact that its produced by a business the size of apple or sony. Labeling people who appreciate a decent service, emerging from the carnage that is the current legit MP3 services is rediculous. In the end, a business has to make money. Period.

The vast majority of customers who use services like itunes won’t notice anything different about the service now compared to a year ago. Only those in the know will understand the changes underway right now in the emerging market (and face it, legit donwloading is a very young business model). The only reason itunes can sell songs online is because the RIAA allow it under their terms, else there will be no servies at all. I’m not fan of any large corperation but we ahve in front of us a half victory over them. DRM is on it’s way out (at least in terms fo music) and will continue this way as long as consumers keep the pressure on. But not as long as when they offer us a service that meets some of the demands we as comsumers have and we keep blowing ti apart by being completely unreasonable, we won’t progress further.

By: Mikecoc

Mikecoc — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:26:27 +0000

don’t care, don’t use apple products.

anyway who would pay for the music that is being spewed out these days.

By: steve jobs

steve jobs — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:41:32 +0000

i was considering installing itunes on linux now they got rid of the drm, but not now.

has anyone tried to inject fake info, or remove it, or is it checksummed (could remove that too!) it would be quite funny to have a load of warez itunes files with steve jobs name/address in it!

so p2p is *still* the only place to get drm-free, personal-info-free and not-a-stupid-file-format music!

By: $uck $pple

$uck $pple — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:41:41 +0000

$pple can take their DRMtunes and shove it up their A$$intosh.

By: Catmambo

Catmambo — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:30:04 +0000

Yep you can add Sony’s name to that list – people seem far more forgiving of Apple!!