Privacy concerns just like MS WMP

Matthew Rubenstein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.xmms.devel
Message-ID <1071073555.724.71.camel@pac>
	Old issue, but still current: XMMS activity privacy. If you are asking
a 3rd party for info, like an Internet server, they will have a chance
to track your activity. This is a fundamental communications dynamic. It
shows up in cookies, but a server can also store your query history,
correlating to IP#, or the login required by the CDDB protocol. One
answer is to use FreeDB, the righteous CDDB clone, by downloading the
entire database, and posting queries to a local server instance that you
control. If you do, you should submit diffs to FreeDB when you update
the data with your own collection info. Of course, that puts you back
into the privacy problem, but an additional layer of aggregation through
the FreeDB user community can solve that problem.
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