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Category Archives: DRM Rant
Farce: “Without D.R.M., legal online music stores would not exist.”
Via TechMeme, the New York Times is rehashing Apple’s DRM now that the iPhone has been announced. They quote Apple’s lawyers in Melanie Tucker v. Apple Computer Inc, where Mrs. Tucker complained that she could not buy music …
Help Oppose the PERFORM Act
Via BoingBoing and TechDirt, Diane Feinstein (D-Ca) seeks to make music listening more difficult and more expensive for everyone across America to line the pockets of villainous organizations such as the RIAA.
Take action here at EFF.org. There …
Backchannel Story on the Zune Ad Spoof
The Zune advertising campaign and their “Welcome to the Social” tagline was just asking to be spoofed. I wanted to point out all of the painfully obvious messaging that their ads were trying to say to its target …
Posted in DRM Rant, New Marketing, Social Web, Uncategorized
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My Zune ad spoof got BoingBoinged!
See it here and also on CrunchGear.
See my updated backchannel story here.
Posted in DRM Rant, My Projects, Photoblogging
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Neuros OSD, the Open Set Top Box
(via BoingBoing) Damn, I had this idea, I swear. But I am glad someone is doing it. The open (as in open source) set-top box, the Neuros OSD running on Linux. This is the beginning of …
The Problem With Home Media Servers
The Diffusion Group reports that another reporting body (un-named and no link to it) is reporting that home media servers are set to grow to 150 million units sold in the US by 2010. The Diffusion Group argues …
Posted in Consumer Electronics, DRM Rant
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When law trumps usability and fair use
Check out this CNet article about how the DMCA is going to get worse. It is all in the name of combating “IP crime,” which in actually is this thing that I think is the American way, and it …
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BarCampLA interviews on the Web 2.0 Show Podcast
Josh and Chris have released the first in my series of interviews from BarCampLA over at the Web 2.0 Show podcast. First is Ian Rogers with Yahoo Music.
Posted in DRM Rant, I heard it on a podcast, Web 2.0
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Google BookSearch-Friendly Publishers?
As reported by BoingBoing, Tom Evslin’s blog Jason Kottke’s blog, and by John himself, Penguin Group, who publishes John Battelle’s book, The Search, a book about the rise of Google, is suing Google over the Google BookSearch program, …
Could DRM Hell be Even Worse with Video?
Right now you can pick almost any fairly-known to well-known artist, and it is safe to assume that you can purchase a music file by that artist on any digital download music service such as iTunes, Yahoo Music, Napster, …
