‘DRM-free’ tracks not DRM free after all…

‘iTunes Plus’ saw today the light of the day… and people have (but of course…), already been tinkering with the files.

As seen at Gizmodo today:

(…) “Turns out that your account information is embedded in every DRM-free ACC AAC file you download, so if your purchased songs somehow get distributed all around the Internets, they’ll be able to easily see who the culprit was.” (…)

Just so that we’re clear and as previously discussed at a bunch of places: I think this is a good, valid idea.

This Internet age is a great time to be living in… but we need to be mindful of authors/artists (or at least copyright holders), too…

Best, TFS

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Update, V/31/2007:

Ars Technica reports , based on a couple of tests run by the EFF, that these new tracks might be carrying more data than just the name and e-mail address of the purchaser.

Then again, it might just be redundancy… We’ll see…

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