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Mostly out of practicality. Gone are the days of safety running binary warez. (Code) [malware]. Too many malcode and viruses.

Data on the other hand, is far less risky, as malicious content would need to exploit the file format parser, etc which is much harder than Trojan using a binary. You probably are not getting malware from mp3s.

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