Bought a Droid
Wow, a blog post. It’s been a while. If you read my Facebook wall, or follow me on Twitter, you know I have a Droid now. I love it. One of my friends aske...
Tag: DRM
Anti-DRM Screed
Look! A blog post! This morning I posted a link to an anti-DRM comic on my Facebook feed. There was a comment thread that I wanted to save, so I decided to put ...
Pirate Bay Founders Found Guilty
The four co-founders of website The Pirate Bay have been found guilty of assisting the distribution of illegal content online by a Swedish court today and have ...
Copyright and Happy Birthday To You
From BoingBoing comes a research paper into the copyright issues surrounding the song “Happy Birthday To You”. I’ll have to download this pape...
I think the Democrats just lost the youth/techie vote
According to Boing Boing, Jenni Engebretsen, the RIAA’s Director of Communications, has been put in charge of PR for the Democratic National Convention. B...
Stop The Big Brother State
Stop the Big Brother State is an excellent video by David Scharf about the surveillance society that we are becoming and why it is bad.
A Vista Simulator
This made me laugh today: “You should go to Vista.” “So you like Vista?” “Not really, no. I run a Vista simulator.” “V...
Vista DRM Cracked Already?
From BoingBoing: Vista launched this week, and it’s already broken. As with previous multi-year DRM development efforts, this one disintegrated like wet k...
Windows DRM is the ‘longest suicide note in history’
There are a couple of stories on The Register about the DRM in the new Windows Vista operating system. Windows DRM is the ‘longest suicide note in history...
Fuck the MPAA
More nerd rap. The Futuristic Sex Robots say they are the only Gangster Nerd Rap band. I don’t know if that’s true, but their song (and video on You...