Re: iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application?

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Richard M. Smith wrote:
> In order to examine this further, I used the trusty tcpdump command (a
> Terminal command that examines every packet of data that leaves a computer),
> and checked its output while playing music both with the MiniStore visible
> and with it hidden. In the former case, when the MiniStore is displayed,
> iTunes sends queries to the iTunes Music Store (this domain:
> ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ministore) and
> to an Apple metrics server (metrics.apple.com). It also send some cookie
> information, which I have not yet been able to decipher. (And this is not
> limited to music--when I started playing an audiobook, the MiniStore changed
> accordingly as well.) 

How about when you play a physical CD?

                                                BB
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