Weblog Entries
Roxio is Apple's Bitch
Software houses bowing to OS vendors never ceases to amaze me.
Bookmarks
"Customary Historic Use" to replace "Fair Use"
Big Content would like to outlaw things no one has even thought of yet
Bill Gates shouts at Sony CEO that his crappy DRM is less crappy
I miss this Cory Doctorow: "...a stupid DRM standard for suck-ass next-gen DVDs, arguing that Microsoft's sellout suck-ass next-gen HD-DVDs are better."
HP DRM Talk
A sequel to Doctorow's "Microsoft DRM Talk"
JHymn
Oh wow, I just ripped all my iTunes DRM'd songs down to unprotected AAC in about 10 minutes. These guys did a great job.
DRM != SSL
Doctorow on why Open Source DRM makes no sense... In response to Sun's recent OSS DRM implementation...
Dave Matthews Band encouraging people to crack their DRM
... and encouraging Apple to not DRM their shit on iTunes. Awesome! (via Waxy)
Gallery of DRM-Related Antipixel Buttons and Badges
If you must put badges on your site, make it one of these...
Mark Cuban: Why Macrovision's customers are fools
This horse should be dead by now.
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.
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..
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.
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.
Sony: DRM cost us the Walkman
The first time I've heard a major player admit that DRM is harmful.
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.
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*
Cory sets DRM strawmen ablaze
Some nice arguments from Doctorow on why consumer electronics device reviewers need to include information on DRM restrictions.
Audiobook of Cory's DRM talk
Buy it: $1. Proceeds go to the EFF.
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.
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.
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!
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."
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".
free culture
Must watch flash presentation (with audio) of Prof. Lawrence Lessig's speech on free culture at OSCON 2002.
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.
Waving a pirate flag
Björk supports file sharing.
HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future
Fixed media will die. Another reason copy-limit DRM can't work.
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
P2P Services in the Clear
Get your share on!
Don't Copy That Floppy
"Two kids committing the carnal sin of copying a game onto a floppy disk.."
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
Shizzolated Microsoft Research DRM talk, and shit.
Can't beat it wit' a stick.
EFF's Letter to United States Senators on Induce Act
"I write today to express the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)'s opposition to S. 2560, a measure premised on the misguided notion that the dilemmas currently facing the music industry can be solved by holding the threat of more lawsuits and more unce
Chander: Verizon's Solution In The Napster Debate
FindLaw's Writ:
Boing Boing: Xeni on NPR: INDUCE Act update
Good starting point for Induce act opionions and information.
NPR : Proposed 'Induce Act' Could Outlaw iPods
Day to Day: technology reporter Xeni Jardin talks about a new U.S. Senate bill, the so-called "Induce Act," that could outlaw devices such as iPod portable music players and other technologies that critics say "intentionally induce" copyright infringement
The Induce Act Spells Trouble
"No Matter What You Call It, the Inducing Infringement of Copyright Act Spells Trouble"
Copyright Bill to Kill Tech? [wired.com]
Hatch introduces bill to bring back telegraph, horse and buggie, and hoolahoop.
Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 (Introduced in Senate)
Add to beat up when seen in street list: Mr. Hatch, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Frist, Mr. Dashle, Mr. Graham, Mrs. Boxer