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Who could forget DVD Jon, the Linux guru who was co-author of DeCSS? This Linux application 'unlocked' DVDs with content otherwise protected by Content Scrambling System (CSS) encryption and landed DVD Jon in front of a judge. Which did not stop him from continuing his quest to free audiovisual...
Read More | Feb 19th, 2008
Yes, in a bizarre twist and turn of fate, the original bad boy of illegal MP3 downloads which then went legit and hooked subscribers into music with Microsoft's digital rights management system has changed tack and announced it is to sell MP3 format tunes. So, OK, maybe not a real return to its...
Read More | Jan 8th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Jan 10th, 2008
It seems like Apple is nearing a day we'd never think would come. This time it seems official. According to the reports, Apple and EMI have formed a deal that would not only allow Apple to sell EMI's music on their store (quite possibly The Beatles), but "large portions of these would be without...
Read More | Apr 2nd, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Apr 2nd, 2007
Cory Doctorow, he of Boing Boing fame and one of the most well known proponents of the Creative Commons scheme, has rather surprisingly attacked Steve Jobs and Apple over DRM. Whoa, hold on a minute there, surprising that someone who speaks out in favor of Creative Commons should be arguing against...
Read More | Feb 24th, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Feb 24th, 2007
Microsoft Vista has, in the few days that it has been on general release, managed to avoid the embarrassment of anyone poking major holes in its security from the perspective of protection of consumer PC integrity at least. However, everything is not so sweet when it comes to those media companies...
Read More | Feb 3rd, 2007 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Feb 3rd, 2007
It's the one thing that we never thought would happen - Apple opening up FairPlay, the system that governs the DRM for music bought from the iTunes store. And if Tech.co.uk is correct, it could very well happen.
I can barely believe it; after all, Apple is not known for opening up technologies....
Read More | Jan 17th, 2007
A recent post on my Livejournal was a link to a story on The Inquirer about someone moving to Linux because it's just less hassle than XP. (I may yet repeat that story here, so for now, I'll not link to it again.)
I find it interesting that one of the replies was, in essence, "I use XP because it...
Read More | Jan 2nd, 2007
As of late, many conflicting reports are saying that altough iPod sales continue to rise, iTunes store music sales are decreasing. They go on to state that sales now are 65% lower than in January, with average transaction sizes dropping by 7%. I think this is really crazy. Why?
Apple never...
Read More | Dec 14th, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Dec 14th, 2006
Ever since computer's hard drives became large enough to hold substantial amounts of information, people have been trying to store music on their computers. Which is fine until they start "sharing" it. Since the beginning of music sharing, record companies have been trying to halt this illegal...
Read More | Dec 6th, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Dec 7th, 2006
