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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EU Parliament bins software patent bill
- "by a massive majority"
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on Wed 07/06/05
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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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Blogs on today's SCOTUS rulings, Xeni on Grokster on NPR
- Initial coverage on MGM v. Grokster from BoingBoing. I'd like to hear what Cory has to say... and I'm sure we will shortly...
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on Mon 06/27/05
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File-Sharing Networks Can Be Held Liable, Court Rules
- New York Times covers the MGM vs. Grokster decision
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on Mon 06/27/05
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Grokster, StreamCast Lose
- "The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that developers of software violate federal copyright law when they provide computer users with the means to share music and movie files downloaded from the Internet"
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on Mon 06/27/05
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Picker MobBlog
- Grokster MGM supreme court opinions are out. These guys are covering all the angles.
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on Mon 06/27/05
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The Free Software Definition - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
- Just wanted to link to this because it pisses me off that download.com is the first hit in a google search for "Free Software". Bha!
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on Sun 06/26/05
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Microsoft releases under Creative Commons ShareAlike
- Holy shit Microsoft is copylefting stuff. What's going on?
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on Fri 06/24/05
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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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Linus compares Linux and BSDs
- Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I'm flexible, and not black-and-white.)
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on Mon 06/13/05
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Cory Doctorow - All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites
- I bookmark a lot of doctorow and I bookmark a lot of IT Conversations; this is two birds with one stone. Doctorow sick genius as usual...
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on Tue 05/17/05
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Register of Copyrights Misunderstands Copyright
- Ed Felton digs into the Register of Copyrights. More informative than dig, really...
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on Tue 05/17/05
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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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The History of Sampling
- Why free culture is important - in a java applet.
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on Mon 05/09/05
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Will America's Favorite Technology Go Dark?
- Superb slashdot pile-on regarding the switching off of analog TV signals on 1/1/2006. The FCC/MSM do not know what to do since NO ONE will be switched over to digital.
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on Mon 04/25/05
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Prison terms on tap for 'prerelease' pirates
- New law puts your ass in jail for 3 years for leaking a pre-release movie.
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on Wed 04/20/05
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Cornell Copyright Debate In Pieces
- The 3.5 hour copyright debate featuring all the players from the EFF, RIAA, MPAA, acedemia, etc. cut up into little pieces for ease of viewing.
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on Wed 04/20/05
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Emacs as Cargo
- Came across this odd section in a "leaving Emacs for vi" document and it has a really interesting description of the history of FSF/GNU, Linux, and the evolution of Free Software. Seems out of place in this document but is worth reading.
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on Mon 04/04/05
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Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend
- Brazil gets it. They could be the international version of Silicon Valley in the next five years...
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on Mon 04/04/05
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Stupid (c) laws block me from publishing own work online
- Clay Shirky on how he doesn't have access to his own copyrighted works.
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on Fri 04/01/05
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MGM v. Grokster - Law and IT
- Panel discusses the Supreme Court ruling in the MGM vs. Grokster case.
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on Fri 04/01/05
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Fred Von Lohmann (EFF) vs. Theodore Olson (RIAA/MPA) on CSPAN
- The RIAA/MPA lawyer is a complete tool, yo...
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on Tue 03/29/05
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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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Cory Doctorow - Web 2.0
- Doctorow's Web 2.0 presentation on IT Conversations.
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on Sat 03/12/05
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NASA using BitTorrent
- Need more stuff like this to keep the RIAA/MPAA lunies from illegalizing our technology...
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on Mon 03/07/05
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Word-of-mouth is why authors succeed
- Doctorow explains that the way to be successful in a distributed culture is to exploit long-tailisms like word of mouth...
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on Thu 03/03/05
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A Note to the FCC - Call their bluff…
- Mark Cuban on why the FCC should tell CBS (and the MPAA) to go screw themselves.
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on Fri 02/25/05
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