7 days 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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deusx : Radiohead Blasted By Veteran Rockers KISS For Giving Their Music Away For Free - Entertainment - Uhh... Yay? "Bassist Gene Simmons says the British rockers – who gave fans the choice to download last year's album 'In Rainbows' for free or pay a sum of their choosing - says their decision is contributing to the demise of the record industry an
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4 month ago
deusx : Revenge of the Sneakernet | Blog | Futurismic - "When music fans can say, ‘I have all the music from 1950-2010, do you want a copy?’ - what kind of business models will be viable in such a reality?"
mmb : Revenge of the Sneakernet | Blog | Futurismic - Revenge of the Sneakernet | Blog | Futurismic via deusx’s favorites on del.icio.us [via]
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4 month ago
gleuschk : Radiohead to Prince: Unblock 'Creep' cover videos: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance - interesting
deusx : Radiohead to Prince: Unblock 'Creep' cover videos: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance - "Prince fans have organized to urge him to relent in his legal fights to control images and photographs of himself."
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6 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.
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13 month ago
Andy Baio : Chief of the U.S. Copyright Office doesn't own a computer - how can a self-proclaimed luddite make policy decisions involving copyright in the digital age? [via]
deusx : Pattern Recognition » Blog Archive » Technophobia or payola? - "Oh wait, IT DOES SAY THAT THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR COPYRIGHT IN THE US DOESN’T OWN A COMPUTER."
Rod Begbie : Technophobia or payola? - "The person responsible for administering Copyright law in the US doesn't own a computer." This explains a *lot*. [via] #
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13 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Toy - "Machine guns. 7am. Because he fixed a broken toy."
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13 month ago
deusx : Do-It-Yourself Counter Notification Letter - "The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, enacted in 1998, set out a notification procedure that can be used to request an ISP to remove allegedly infringing material from a web page. However, there is a defense against this attack"
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17 month ago
plasticbag : Apple have finally launched the DRM-free higher quality version of songs on iTunes - it's called iTunes Plus - Obviously it's EMI only at the moment, but it's sufficiently interesting for me to go and see if there's anything I've bought over the last few years that I could upgrade.
jimray : iTunes Plus launches - DRM-free 256kbps encoded AAC files from the iTunes store. I guess this would be cool if I still *bought* music (kidding! don't sue me RIAA!)
deusx : Apple Launches iTunes Plus - "Higher Quality DRM-Free Tracks Now Available on the iTunes Store Worldwide"
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17 month ago
deusx : A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright? - New York Times - "But it might also be for the public good were Congress to allow the enslavement of foreign captives and their descendants (this was tried); the seizure of Bill Gates’s bankbook; or the ruthless suppression of Alec Baldwin."
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17 month ago
deusx : Boing Boing: HD-DVD re-cracked six days *before* it is patched - "Key revocation doesn't work. Suing the Internet doesn't work. DRM doesn't work ... Pirates who download movies don't ever see DRM. Honest customers who buy media are the only people who ever get restricted by it "
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17 month ago
jimray : Gonzales wants to criminalize attempted copyright infringement - Fuck a duck, this is ridiculous. Do these asshats not have any sense of irony? This is the definition of fascism based on corporate/government collusion.
deusx : Tech news blog - Gonzales proposes new crime: 'Attempted' copyright infringement | CNET News.com - "Require Homeland Security to alert the Recording Industry Association of America"
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18 month ago
deusx : mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Who Gives Away Books Online? "Scabs," Says Prominent Sci-Fi Writer - "This happens much more quickly now, sometimes at head-spinning speed. The downside is more bad writing is making it out there onto the internet; the upside is that good writers can find an audience, too. The other downside, of course, is that you mi
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18 month ago
deusx : mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - EXCLUSIVE: Hendrix Clarifies "Scab"-rous Remarks on Web Publishing - "Although I don't spend much time in the blogosphere, I am aware—particularly through emailings from various SFWA committee members— that the use of the term "webscab" has touched off something of a firestorm."
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18 month ago
deusx : MySpace Makes Nice With Music Widget-Makers - - "MySpace is "killing themselves with this -- castrating the ecosystem that built them," says Gerd Leonhard, founder and CEO of Sonific, a music-streaming company."
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20 month ago
deusx : Boing Boing: Macrovision sends pretty lies to Steve Jobs - "This is my favorite DRM fairy tale of all: that someone out there will use DRM to charge you less and deliver more."
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20 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: The Calibration - '...racking my brains for what I actually do instead of just saying "I need Windows, so too bad about the raping."'
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21 month ago
Linkorama : Right to Link - San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today defended the First Amendment rights of a citizen-journalist to link from a public "wiki" to electronic copies of damaging internal Eli Lilly documents relating to the controversial prescriptio
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21 month ago
deusx : Recording Industry Bleeding Cash, Album Sales Down for Seventh Straight Year - Gizmodo - "Of course, the sleazy grandma-suing record companies will blame pirates for poor sales, which is much easier than actually signing competent artists who don't crank out shitty music year after year. Most of the steaming heap is not even worth stealing."
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21 month ago
deusx : if:book: free speech requires the right to quote from ALL media — not just text - "How can we have a comprehensive and crucial discussion about our culture if we can't quote from it."
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22 month ago
deusx : Why piracy is still more common than legal video downloads - "P2P clearly gives you more bang for your buck"
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22 month ago
plasticbag : Wendy Grossman writes about the recent advert posted by 4500 musicians protesting about Gowers rejection of copyright term extension on recordings - Turns out some of the people who protested were—well—dead. Makes you wonder who decided to protest on their behalf. Maybe the people who actually own the recordings? Bit dodgy.
deusx : net.wars: I hear dead people - "Keep music dead. Hire dead musicians."
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deusx : Listening Post - Creative Commons' License Revision Would Render Zune Noncompliant - "When You distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work, You may not impose any technological measures on the Work that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work from You to exercise the right granted to them
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23 month ago
deusx : Why does the fashion industry thrive in spite of rampant IP "piracy"? - "In spite of the lack of IP protection for clothing designs—or rather, because of this lack, the authors argue—the fashion industry remains vibrant and profitable"
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25 month ago
deusx : MPAA campaign makes piracy seem totally badass | GoSleepGo.com - "Rightly so, the kid in the poster is excited as hell about it!"
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