{"id":649,"date":"2009-01-14T10:43:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T10:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=649"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:27:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:27:03","slug":"itunes-drmnot-quite-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/649","title":{"rendered":"iTunes-DRM=(not quite) freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/whatsnew\/\">Apple announced<\/a> that it was no longer going to include Digital Rights Management on songs downloaded from the iTunes store, it all looked rosy&mdash;but there is a hidden catch. The AAC (.m4a) files <a href=\"http:\/\/crave.cnet.co.uk\/digitalmusic\/0,39029432,49300555,00.htm\">still have your iTunes account id embedded in them<\/a> so it can still be determined who bought them. That is unless you can find a way to edit the file to remove this information. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/information\/free\/\">Mediamonkey<\/a> says it can edit AAC tags but I don&#8217;t know if it includes this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Apple announced that it was no longer going to include Digital Rights Management on songs downloaded from the iTunes store, it all looked rosy&mdash;but there is a hidden catch. The AAC (.m4a) files still have your iTunes account id embedded in them so it can still be determined who bought them. That is unless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-fi","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}