Apple decides to start selling DRM free music, but at a hefty cost. Included in the tracks sold from its iTunes store are the personal details of the purchaser. These details are used to tack the distribution of the file over the internet. And the most notable use of the file is to catch piracy.
The downside is the information can be used by malicious third parties to identify the original purchaser. And Apple may use the information to spy on legitimate users. The majority of users would care less for this feature.
While most people wouldn’t care about their purchasing habits being tracked, it’s the principal of the matter that’s important. What driven the same outcry after DRM embedded music was discovered is the same this time around with personal information being embedded.
This game of cat and mouse with the music suppliers and what they can get away with is never ending. They add DRM, the public protests, they replace it with rootkits. The public finds out and they replace it with the user’s personal info. The music industry seems to be testing the boundaries of what the public will put up with.
In the end it’s the legitimate consumer that gets punished. Until the record labels understand that, or the judicial system steps in and ends their mockery of the legal system, the music labels will continue to punish the very users that pay their bills.
Source doc timesonline
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