How Copyright Broke
Cory Doctorow has a nice article in Locus about copyright and how it is broken and how it should work. So this is where copyright breaks: When copyright lawyers...
Tag: DRM
Consumer Electronics Association to the RIAA: Suck it!
The Consumer Electronics Association is finally starting to figure out that screwing over your customers is not a good business practice and is running an ad te...
DMCA Unintended Consequences List Updated
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has kept a running list of the unintended consequences arising from the Digital Millenium Copyright Act’s passage seven...
Telco Panel on DRM Called “A bunch of girls”
This just makes me want to cheer! “Why are you such a bunch of big girls?” asked Birch. “Why don’t you tell the content owners to just g...
The RIAA is at it again
RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use Fuck you RIAA! Time to write your congress-critters again. Sigh. Can we just drop a nuke on the RIAA headquar...
The Beastles – A Beatles Mash-Up
These are a pair of fun Beatles Mash Ups. The Beastles and Let It Beast. Fun!
Yay! Senators are starting to figure out DRM issues
From BoingBoing: The Senate Commerce Committee’s hearings on the “Broadcast Flag” and “Audio Flag” proposals have been derailed be...
Before the Sony rootkit there was MediaMax
Before Sony started installing rootkits on everybodys computers using the First 4 Internet DRM, they were installing other DRM software called SunnComm MediaMax...
Bruce Schneier on Sony’s Rootkit
Bruce Schneier has a very good column in Wired about the Sony Rootkit. It’s a tale of extreme hubris. Sony rolled out this incredibly invasive copy-protec...
Boing Boing’s Sony DRM Roundups
Boing Boing has just posted their second Sony DRM Roundup. It’s a list of links to all kinds of stories about the Sony DRM ‘rootkit’. Their fi...