{"id":1329,"date":"2007-06-02T14:04:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T21:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2007-06-02T14:04:05","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T21:04:05","slug":"why-is-drm-free-music-tagged-with-name-and-e-mail-apple-keeps-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/02\/why-is-drm-free-music-tagged-with-name-and-e-mail-apple-keeps-mum\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is DRM-Free Music Tagged With Name and E-Mail? Apple Keeps Mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/music\/2007\/06\/no_explanation_.html\">Wired News<\/a>:<i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>by Cyrus Farivar<br \/>\nJune 01, 2007 | 6:36:35 PM<\/p>\n<p>Apple has declined to explain why its new DRM-free music files are watermarked with users&#8217; names and e-mail addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Apple iTunes 7.2 brought the new ability to download tracks from EMI Records without copy protection. But the unprotected files are labeled with the buyer&#8217;s details, leading some to wonder if Apple is appending the information as an anti-piracy measure.<\/p>\n<p>But Apple is remaining mum about its reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>An Apple spokesman suggested by e-mail that Wired News contact Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at Jupiter Research who has been briefed about iTunes Plus. The Apple spokesman didn&#8217;t respond to further requests for comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired News: by Cyrus Farivar June 01, 2007 | 6:36:35 PM Apple has declined to explain why its new DRM-free music files are watermarked with users&#8217; names and e-mail addresses. Earlier this week, Apple iTunes 7.2 brought the new ability to download tracks from EMI Records without copy protection. But the unprotected files are labeled with the buyer&#8217;s details, leading some to wonder if Apple is appending the information as an anti-piracy measure. But Apple is remaining mum about its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-apple","category-journalism","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-lr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}