Archive for May, 2007
iTunes Plus Username and Email
The news breaks today that Apple customers using iTunes Plus will have their username and email address embedded in every DRM-free track they download.
It has been suggested that Apple is looking to monitor the volume of tracks uploaded by its customers onto peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, with illegally-shared music traced back to the original owners who can then be successfully prosecuted by the music companies with large penalties to pay irrespective of age, status or income.
So, DRM is dead but they still flog the corpse.
The information can be easily faked. Within days or weeks we can expect to find how-to advice online for stripping the usernames and email addresses from downloaded tracks.
Proving copyright has been infringed would be impossible in most every case.
No defence filed in bank charge claim
My claim against the bank for the refund of illegal penalty charges has either fallen through the cracks or ended up behind a filing cabinet at the bank’s solicitors, but whatever’s happened I called the court today to check on whether a defence had been filed by the due date over a week ago and the answer was no. This means I win my case by default! I’ve WON!
The nice lady I spoke to at the court told me I now have to send in my Notice of Issue form with part A ticked—the bit that says the defendant didn’t file an admission or defence—and part D filled out, which is where I list the amount, interest, and court fees now due to me from the bank, which ends up spending several hundred pounds more than if it had just settled when I first approached it with a demand for payment. As the saying goes, tough titty!
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