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iTunes DRM-Free Music Embeds Account Information

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Very interesting post over on TUAW. It looks like the DRM-free music you can download from iTunes now (and hopefully growing in the future) is not something you would likely want to throw up on a torrent site anytime soon, mostly due to the fact that the mp4 file contains your personal information in it.

Erica gives the tip on how to find out what’s in the music files:

Use the UNIX “strings” command to look at the text in your data and grep to search for your name. e.g.
strings 01\ Ooh\ La.m4a | grep name

Alternatively, open all the strings in TextEdit:
strings 01\ Ooh\ La.m4a | open -f.

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