[IP] Re: Apple embeds email address in DRM-free downloads

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Victor Marks <victormarks@gmail.com>
Date: June 1, 2007 9:20:10 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Apple embeds email address in DRM-free downloads

Hi Dave, for ip if you wish.

On Jun 1, 2007, at 9:00 AM, David Farber wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>
> Date: May 31, 2007 11:06:22 PM EDT
> To: dave@farber.net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Apple embeds email address in DRM-free downloads
>
> While you can create a bogus billing name, your AppleID is tied to  
> your
> credit card info. Apple won't issue an AppleID without a valid  
> credit card.

Not wholly true:

You can sign up for a 60-day free trial of .Mac which will generate  
an AppleID without a credit card. Similarly, if you go to  
jobs.apple.com, you can register an AppleID without a credit card.

I do not know if iTunes will let you use an AppleID absent a payment  
method of some form: but I do know that you can use it with a  
giftcard rather than a CC.


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