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Crime

Level3.Net is being Internet Terrorist in my opinion

I have been sitting here in Hawaii all day trying to reach various podcast sites on the Internet and they keep timing out. This is on both Road Runner Broadband and Earthlink dial up. All dayI have been getting e-mail from listeners of our podcast that cannot download the show. When I reach the folks at Libsyn they tell me

Seems I’m not the only one fed up with DRM

A couple of months ago I had a laptop die on me, on it was a lot of content that I had purchased that had all that DRM crap attached to it. To this day I have not been able to open some of that content that I legally purchased? Like many others I am fed up with DRM. From

Disabled Oregon Woman to fight the RIAA

Nice to see someone step up and fight the actions of the RIAA. Having just read the summary of here counter suit this should be an interesting battle. I would love to see the documents that they are able to obtain from the RIAA in their discovery process. I hope they also get a judge that will give this a

The RIAA trying to reduce the quality of future Radio Reception

CALL TO ACTION The RIAA has decided that the makers of next generation of Digital Radio Receivers need to legislated so that you will not copy music that is being broadcast over the digital airways. They are asking congress to build restrictions into these digital players so that they cannot have material copied out of them and also to reduce

TiVo version 7.2 adds content protection!

I can hear some of you screaming already. It appears TiVo is incorporating DRM into this version of software. Meaning broadcasters will likely be able to flag content and then you will not be able to record it on your TiVo DVR! Some comments from the referenced site that I agree with "Tivo 1: Just because someone asks for a

Low Power FM Station Blocked by Astrodome Official!

Imagine securing 10,000 fm radios and setting up shop to provide emergency information to evacuees at the astrodome and then have some idiot official say you can't transmit, even though the FCC was onboard etc. This low power FM station was going to provide critical non commercial information to those in the astrodome. I can't wait till we here the

Flagging Blogger Content a Joke

I have been using the Flag blogger content option to try and draw attention to weblogs that have been setup for spamming. I think I am about two weeks into flagging accounts and have been tracking those that I have flagged and guess what. Nothing has been done to them. Obviously it takes about 5 seconds to look at some