DRM != SSL
- Doctorow on why Open Source DRM makes no sense... In response to Sun's recent OSS DRM implementation...
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on Wed 08/24/05
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Dave Matthews Band encouraging people to crack their DRM
- ... and encouraging Apple to not DRM their shit on iTunes. Awesome! (via Waxy)
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on Tue 08/16/05
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Gallery of DRM-Related Antipixel Buttons and Badges
- If you must put badges on your site, make it one of these...
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on Thu 06/30/05
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Mark Cuban: Why Macrovision's customers are fools
- This horse should be dead by now.
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on Thu 06/16/05
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Roxio is Apple's Bitch
Okay, today's piece of complete bullshit comes from Roxio, makers of the popular CD/DVD burner, Toast:
"Following discussions with Apple, this version will no longer allow customers to create audio CDs, audio DVDs, or export audio to their hard drive using purchased iTunes music store content," notes Roxio in the version 6.1 release notes.
What is Apple trying pull? And why would Roxio ever agree to completely screw their paying customers by placing unwanted restrictions on purchased (read: you own it) music? Just to oblige Apple? Are they getting into bed together or is Roxio just bent on losing customers?
I'm beginning to wonder whether there is any real difference between Apple's iTunes Music Store and the loathful subscription services like Rhapsody, Napster2, and now Yahoo!'s Music Unlimited.
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on Thu 05/12/05
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DRM-free iTunes interface "PyMusique" (written in Python)
- Looks like this let's you use iTMS like normal but the files are stripped of DRM on the way down or something. And it's written in python.
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on Fri 03/18/05
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JHymn - Removing DRM from iTunes
- Excellent O'Reilly article describing Apple's DRM apparatus in detail and pointers to tools for curing your crippled music..
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on Fri 01/28/05
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PlaysMaybe
- Finally, CE manufacturers will be placing a badge on their crippled-with-DRM devices to inform the consumer that said devices suck and should be considered broken. Oddly enough, the badge reads: PlaysForSure.
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on Fri 01/28/05
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Cory Doctorow: "Copyright vs Community" (MOV, MPEG)
- Feature length lecture by Cory Doctorow on copyright, DRM, and other digital rights issues. CC share-alike licensed.
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on Wed 01/26/05
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Sony: DRM cost us the Walkman
- The first time I've heard a major player admit that DRM is harmful.
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on Fri 01/21/05
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CBS Tries DRM to Block Criticism of Rathergate Report
- You will now need to go to jail to cite a report released by CBS. Yet another unfair and unintended use of the DMCA.
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on Fri 01/14/05
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Gizmodo Gates Interview Part Four: Communists and DRM
- Gates backpetals on the previous "creative communist" remarks and talks about DRM as a speedbump... *caugh* strawman *caugh*
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on Thu 01/13/05
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Cory sets DRM strawmen ablaze
- Some nice arguments from Doctorow on why consumer electronics device reviewers need to include information on DRM restrictions.
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on Mon 01/03/05
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Audiobook of Cory's DRM talk
- But it: $1. Proceeds go to the EFF.
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on Mon 12/27/04
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Slashdot on Origins and Misuse of the Word Piracy.
- The article is "SVP : More Video Anti-Copying Technology" but the comments on "piracy" are hilarious.
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on Sat 09/18/04
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Copyright Proposal Induces Worry
- Katie Dean with an update on the Induce Act non-sense. Short version: dickhead copyright officials help dickhead senators reword Induce Act.
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on Sun 09/12/04
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The DRM Debacle
- Tim Bray on DRM and its consequences. I'd love to see more of the popular bloggers jumping in and educating people on this. You have the medium!
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on Sun 09/12/04
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The Right to Read - Richard Stallman
- "Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong--something that only pirates would do."
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on Wed 09/08/04
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Richard Stallman, you light-hearted optimist you
- There are a few arguments that almost all politicians are sensitive to: "For the children", "For the poor starving artist", "For the public good", "For the almost extinguished animal/plant".
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on Wed 09/08/04
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free culture
- Must watch flash presentation (with audio) of Prof. Lawrence Lessig's speech on free culture at OSCON 2002.
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on Mon 08/30/04
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Copyright Bill Needs Big Changes
- Note: Follow and support Katie Dean (wired reporter). She has consistently and reputably covered every significant technological rights issue since 1999.
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on Thu 08/26/04
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HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future
- Fixed media will die. Another reason copy-limit DRM can't work.
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on Thu 08/26/04
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Appeals Court Rules For Grokster
- "...the question is, does the statutory monopoly that Congress has given you reach out to that something new. And that's a very debatable question. You don't solve it by calling it 'theft.' You have to show why this court should extend a statutory monopol
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on Fri 08/20/04
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Don't Copy That Floppy
- "Two kids committing the carnal sin of copying a game onto a floppy disk.."
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on Tue 08/17/04
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Transcript of interview with Cory Doctorow
- More Doctorow: "I mean, books are printed on substrate that is so fragile that it burns when it comes into contact with oxygen. We actually use that substrate to wipe our asses with. This is not robust, archival material. This is the very definition of ep
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on Sun 08/01/04
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Shizzolated Microsoft Research DRM talk, and shit.
- Can't beat it wit' a stick.
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on Sun 08/01/04
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Nuclear Elephant: File Sharing Experiment
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on Sun 08/01/04
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