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DRM-free iTunes Songs Have Embedded User Info

5:15AM May 31, 2007 | Seamus Byrne

itunesplussonghasname2.jpgSo now that you have iTunes Plus that means you can go ahead and download DRM-free songs. Awesome, right? Yes, it’s very awesome. But if you thought that meant you could now buy songs from iTunes and then torrent them to help your ratio at Senor Sleazy’s Pirate Palace, you might want to hold off.

Turns out that your account information is embedded in every DRM-free ACC 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. But you wanted DRM-free tunes so you could play them on multiple devices and copy them for personal use, not for piracy, right? Right guys?

TUAW Tip: Don’t Torrent That Song… [TUAW]


Comments

  • steven

    May 31, 2007 at 11:29 AM

    Ooh la, thats ok. as long as i can share my tunes with all my devices. thats a good thing.

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