I don’t quite see a reason to get riled up about this. They’re not being sneaky about it. Is Amazon.com malware too then?
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I don’t quite see a reason to get riled up about this. They’re not being sneaky about it. Is Amazon.com malware too then?
Not So Fast 
People on a whole are a little too self centered and arrogant to think that any huge facelss company would even give a rip about what they listen to, buy, search, earn or whatever on a personal level. In iTunes case it is just based on things that you’ve bought from the store and even then I could care less if they knew what was in my collection. I don’t remember paying for iTunes so hey do with it what you want. I think I have all my stuff I can sending nonidentifiable information back. Heck Google has a list of every one of my search back to early last year and it hasn’t bothered me a bit. People need to just realize they don’t matter to any of these companies on any sort of personal level.
To play the Hippie-Anti-Government-Liberal / devil’s advocate here, one concern that still resonates despite a corporation’s disinterest in its customers as individuals is that mere possession of that data could avail it to under-handed attempts by the fascist police state that we live in to use our musical tastes to arrest us and throw us in jail forever without trial.
I mean, just because I listen to “Blow Up a Tall Building” by the Dancing Ahmeds doesn’t mean I really support terror, you know?
Which doesn’t exactly make it malware, you dirty hippy.
Whatever, I showered last week. I’m not half as dirty as most of the hippies.