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Stephen Downes

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iTunes made a big deal a few days ago about removing the DRM from all its song downloads. Now it emerges that what they're doing instead is embedding the downloaders' emails into the MP3 files. No doubt scripts will emerge shortly to scrub the email addresses from these files - and more interestingly, to insert spoof emails into them.

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