This without saying it convinces me to never every buy another CD from Sony ever again. I love music and buy Albums of groups that I like. But until their is some law on the books that prevent companies from installing spyware, rootkits and any other DRM technology I am not buying another CD. Sony I am also am placing
I hate to say it but here we go again. Hollywood has fielded some new legislation that makes the broadcast flag initiative look insignificant. From BoingBoing I read the following and my jaw hit the floor "Under a new proposed Analog Hole bill, it will be illegal to make anything capable of digitizing video unless it either has all its
You all remember DVD Jon right, he was the brilliant 16 year old that built a tool the rest of the world could use to RIP DVD's. If you remember he was acquitted twice in Norway. Well this brave soul has taken a job in San Diego so the question is now will authorities try to go after him. Recently
Not sure what to think of this. When you click on this link you leave my site go to Podscope, and then my podcast page loads in a frame on their domain and they have something funky on the bottom of the page. Could not find this link from the main page, but needless to say I am puzzled by
I found some information tonight that made my mouth fall open in disbelief. I have been hammering away at you folks for a while on Fair Use and talking about the evils of the DMCA. Little did I realize the extent to which companies are pushing agendas forward to take us back to the stone ages. Thanks to Doc Searls
The RIAA and their lawyers have served the fatal blow to Kazaa and they are sitting back enjoying the kill. Kazaa may be in triage but mark my words the network has suffered a blow so severe it will not survive. The question is now which P2P application will be next. The developers of these tools are learning many valuable
If their ever was a fair use advocate this guy is one. He is probably one of the most hated hackers by the MPAA. This time he has Google in his sites and has patched the Video Viewer Google released earlier in the week. [Engadget]