(1), It doesn’t matter if the thief finds out your name and/or email address. What could they do to it? Your name could be any other name from the 3 billion people in the world, and the worse they could do with your email address is spam you.

(2) They could post it on LimeWire, etc. Sure, so what? Not only is it unlikely that the RIAA (or whatever the organization’s name is) comes knocking on your door (again, how would they get your address from only your name and email), but if they do, your innocent. They can search your computer for a copy of the song, they could search your computer for a copy of LimeWire, they could see your web history, they won’t find anything. Innoccent until proven guilty.

What we are talking about is the difference between something physical, and something not, an experience. When you pay for a baseball game, you are paying for the experience. You might argue that a music file is not physical, but it is. It is an object, which I can buy, and which I can keep. Buying music digitally is much more comparable to buying a CD, IMO, than to going to a baseball game. Now, if you want to compare it to watching a baseball game on TV, than I would say it’s much more comparable to buying an old vhs tape of a baseball, produced, and sold by the MLB, its self.

I agree with you that if you watch a game on Cable or go to a ball game, the game is not yours. But what you are arguing is that if I purchase media of a baseball game, such as a VHS tape, whatever… That it also does not belong to me.

I don’t condone people stealing music. I just said that because I understand why they do.

“That’s why you don’t fucking buy from Apple. That’s also why so many people don’t buy at all! We don’t want some asshole telling us how we can use something that we buy and how we can’t. If we pay for it, it is ours!!”

So if you go to a baseball game, the game is yours? No. If you watch a game on TV, that you paid for, and paid the cable company, do you own the rights to re-transmit the game? No.

Should I go on?

That’s why you don’t fucking buy from Apple. That’s also why so many people don’t buy at all! We don’t want some asshole telling us how we can use something that we buy and how we can’t. If we pay for it, it is ours!!

Fuck DRM!!!

That is a legal issue – just because your information is in the song doesn’t mean you pirated it. They still have to prove you uploaded it.

Its no different than if someone steals your car and uses it in a hit and run. The License/VIN is tied to you through government agencies – they still have to prove you were behind the wheel.

It seems that to many, Apple’s new DRM-free music store isn’t enough. Now Geeks R Us has posted a response to all the nonsense — and it’s a good one. I love the work Cory Doctorow has done to raise awareness about DRM issues. I …

Interesting things happen when an attempt is made to force ideals / specific morals upon the masses .

aside from which, how hard can it be to strip out the info …….

If you don’t want your personal details embedded in a song, use a fake account. Purchase iTunes gift cards so as to not use your credit card. This ain’t rocket science folks.

The cops, Jack. But nice ad hominem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

“Now Apple is the new Big Brother of music?”

C’mon. You CAN still share your DRM-free iTunes songs with your friends. Just know that your personal information is contained in the file. iTunes and Apple do NOT check to see if you’ve done this.

How is this Big Brother, you ass?