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04-11-2010, 01:18 AM
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#1 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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| How “Dirty” MP3 Files Are A Back Door Into Cloud DRM from TechCrunch
All the big music sellers may have moved to non-DRM MP3 files long ago, but the watermarking of files with your personal information continues. Most users who buy music don’t know about the marking of files, or don’t care. Unless those files are uploaded to BitTorrent or other P2P networks, there isn’t much to worry about.
A list of which music services are selling clean MP3 files without embedded personal information, and which aren’t, is here. Apple, LaLa (owned by Apple) and Walmart embed personal information. Amazon, Napster and the rest have resisted label pressure to do so.
A music industry insider who’s asked to remain anonymous writes to us:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/06/how...=Google+Reader
Oh.. and here's something just for fun: 
think about that for a second. lol
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04-11-2010, 01:32 AM
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#2 | | ESKETIT
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cool story bro
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04-11-2010, 02:01 AM
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#3 | | Banned (ABWS)
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i still dont know wtf hes talking about
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04-11-2010, 03:24 AM
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#4 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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^.. fak.. i should have just posted it in the tech forum
LOL
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04-11-2010, 09:25 AM
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#5 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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Originally Posted by BlacknJean  i still dont know wtf hes talking about | if after reading the link, you still can't figure it out... well
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04-11-2010, 01:29 PM
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#6 | | Banned (ABWS)
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If you distribute files bought from iTunes, you will get caught easier than if the files were from Amazon, since iTunes embeds your personal info into the files.
Too bad Beatport is not on there, that's where I get my music from.
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04-11-2010, 01:37 PM
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#7 | | The Lone Wanderator
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Each of these files has a unique identifier code embedded inside of them--a transaction number or something similar.
There's a possibility that in the future, if you buy a digital copy of a song, it will check if the transaction number checks back to the player/person who purchased it. If it does, you get a song. If not, you'll get an error.
It's putting DRM on a centralized internet database rather than on a device.
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04-11-2010, 03:26 PM
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#8 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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till somebody makes a program to strip that info, if its not already out there....
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04-12-2010, 12:46 PM
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#9 | | they call me the snowman
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the point is, how would you know to strip it, if the OP didn't post this. I had no idea it went this far. I don't do a lot of file sharing, but it would suck to me sued by a band because somehow one of the songs I bought on iTunes ended up in a torrent portal...
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