Comments on: Fluffy Links – Monday June 11th

By: Peter Eckersley

Peter Eckersley — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:43:06 +0000

Hi guys… I haven’t been following trackbacks until now, but your reporting of the iTunes Plus story is pretty irresponsible.

By embedding identifying information in DRM-free files, Apple has created (intentionally or otherwise) the first reliable, large-scale mechanism that can be used to identify people who engage in casual friend-to-friend copying of music files. Legally speaking, this is very much a gray area but between 20 and 50 percent of computer users do it.

I honestly don’t understand why you think that posting about this story (or about the fact that there was more identifying information present in the files than had been reported) was over-reacting to anything.

By: Damien

Damien — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:43:06 +0000

@Anonymoose: Hah, not a chance. Not been the bigest fan of Apple in fairness. I do like the iPhone for the way it will make the other phone companies change their ways and maybe innovate a little bit more.

By: Anonymoose

Anonymoose — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:13:54 +0000

Are you keeping in with Apple, Damien?
I heard you on the last word last week plugging to get hold of a shiny new iPhone, just to play with of course.

By: Damien

Damien — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:53:19 +0000

They’ve actually been getting more and mre hysterical as time goes on, in my view. They do good but it seems they want to be first with the headlines anytime a tech company does something, that might possibly if the stars are aligned right, infringe on privacy issues. Except for Google, they kiss the ass of Google no matter what.

By: dahamsta

dahamsta — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:36:47 +0000

The EFF does a lot of good work, it’s a bit much to sucker punch them for one silly fuck up. We all make mistakes.

adam