By Karsten Lemm
So here's Apple on Tuesday announcing that pretty soon all music sold on iTunes will be DRM-free, meaning it can be copied without technical hurdles -- and promptly we see headlines like this one in the New York Times: "Want to Copy iTunes Music? Go Ahead, Apple Says." Sounds as if you could finally share your music library with your 10,000 best friends on Facebook, MySpace and the rest of the world, doesn't it?
Well, not so fast: The problem is that even DRM-free "iTunes Plus" files contain the buyer's name. In other words, if you download Tony Bennett's "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" because you were so smitten by his Macworld performance, your name is embedded in the AAC music file that the Apple Store sends to your iTunes library. To see for yourself, simply open an iTunes Plus song, i.e. the AAC file you find in the iTunes library folder of your hard drive, in a text editor or word processor.
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