6 hours ago
wearehugh : iTunes music: The cost of removing Apple’s copy protection - Apple 2.0 - "Leave it to Apple to turn the lifting of restrictions into a profit center."
deusx : iTunes music: The cost of removing Apple’s copy protection - Apple 2.0 - "Leave it to Apple (AAPL) to turn the lifting of restrictions into a profit center. If users convert every one of the 9 billion songs purchased from the iTunes Store over the past six years, a rich new revenue stream will flow toward Cupertino. Techc
# copy7 days ago
Rod Begbie : 30GB Zune apocalypse arrives as devices enter digital coma - All 30Gb Zunes go kaput simultaneously. The only reason these devices care what day it is? The secure clock used by their DRM. [via] #
# copy2 month ago
deusx : Stupid DRM handcuffs | D'Arcy Norman dot net - "That’s me in the DVD. But because the MPAA makes software companies bend over to protect their content by baking DRM into the apps that ship with my computer, I’m prevented from doing legitimate things with my own content. Thankfully, there are
# copy3 month ago
nelson : Xbox 360 piracy - Didn't realize this console had been pretty well cracked open
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deusx : WalMart now says they'll keep the DRM servers on forever - Boing Boing - "All those companies (cough Amazon cough Apple cough) that say they're only doing DRM for now, until they can convince the stupid entertainment execs to ditch it, heed this lesson: you will spend the rest of your corporate life paying for this m
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3 month ago
deusx : Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection -- only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans - Boing Boing - "Hey suckers! Did you buy DRM music from Wal*Mart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they're repaying your honesty by taking away your music. Unless you go through a bunch of hoops (that you may never find out abou
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5 month ago
nelson : Fix Youtube Olympics - Some broad US blocking of Olympics video on Youtube; here's how to circumvent it
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5 month ago
nelson : Hulu search: "Olympics" - Awesome! NBC's video site has all sorts of video for the Olympics; mostly history lessons about the 1980 boycott of Moscow
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5 month ago
wearehugh : What if Apple stopped issuing DRM keys? | News - Digital Media - CNET News.com - the EFF would never stop gloating. ever.
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5 month ago
wearehugh : We Know How Many Kindles Amazon Has Sold: 240,000 - take it with a grain of techcrunch
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5 month ago
wearehugh : Yahoo Music to offer refunds, what about MSN? | News - Digital Media - CNET News.com
# copy6 month ago
wearehugh : Yahoo pulls an MSN Music (only faster) | Bit Player | Los Angeles Times
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6 month ago
wearehugh : Iphone 2.0: Why You're Better Off Avoiding the iPhone - "tabbed browsing convinced me to trade in my principles for convenience." at least she's honest.
43folders : Iphone 2.0: Why You're Better Off Avoiding the iPhone - via http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/07/18/trapani
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7 month ago
wearehugh : Zuneral: The Death of DRM « Quotidianity - brilliant
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9 month ago
deusx : DRM sucks redux: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys - "Companies that control various DRM schemes, as well as the content providers themselves, can yank your ability to play the content which you lawfully purchased (and now, videos) at any moment—no matter what your expectation was when you bought it.
# copy10 month ago
nelson : Game piracy numbers - Only 1 sale per 1000 illegal copies eliminated. 92% theft rate.
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11 month ago
wearehugh : FORTUNE: Apple 2.0 Why iTunes movie rentals won’t play on most video iPods « - "Sometimes you have to listen very closely when Steve Jobs promises something."
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12 month ago
wearehugh : Davis Freeberg’s Digital Connection » Bad COPP No Netflix - no sympathy. none. go fuck yourself. oh wait, you already did.
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12 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : Further commentary on the RIAA’s asshattery - Arr oh eff ell. ∞
deusx : Music Recording Industry Will Be First Traditional Media Industry To Be Utterly Destroyed By Digital Technology - Publishing 2.0 - "The maxim goes that new technologies don’t kill off old media — radio didn’t kill newspapers, TV didn’t kill radio, etc. But it’s not clear this maxim will hold true in the digital age"
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14 month ago
deusx : HijiNKS ENSUE a geek webcomic - updated monday and thursday » Blog Archive » Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people’s medicine for fuel - "Our kids will laugh when we’re 60 and we don’t know which button turns on the garbage disposal and which one vents plasma from the starboard nacelles."
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14 month ago
wearehugh : Dear Jeff Bezos (one-week Kindle review) « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger - just once, i wish a device would fail for MY reasons. but no, this one will fail because it just plain sucks.
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14 month ago
nelson : 60% freeloaded Radiohead - Statistics on who paid what for the Radiohead album
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15 month ago
Linkorama : The World Beyond the LAN: Trust and Human Resources - He just smiled and said: “If you trust your employees you don’t need DRM.”
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15 month ago
wearehugh : Bill de hÓra: Music, not just for christmas - "owning digital music sucks"
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