I got all this stuff from Cory over at Boing Boing where they discuss Day Against DRM. Here’s some things to do and read to celebrate No DRM Day: The Digital TV Liberation Front’s Wendy Seltzer is giving a free talk tonight at Los Angeles’s USC Annenberg School (main campus) at 7PM. DefectiveByDesign’s list of [...]
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Day against DRM – Oct. 3rd
Today is “Day against DRM” and you can check out the following link for Ten Things You Can Do to joing the fight against the virus that is DRM. Also, here is another link which shows more info on DRM and what it means to everyone. Check out this information.? This is some nastiness that [...]
Corporate Bully’s getting their way in Congress
Anyone who reads my blog knows that I bought a Mac almost a year ago and have had a great experience with it. I’m far from a Mac zealot but I do think that Apple has done a lot of smart things. On the other hand, they are doing some really bad things. One could [...]
Corporate Disputes
Have you ever been involved with corporate disputes? I mean the ones where one big corporation sues another over some various issue or another. Now, have you been involved in that kind of dispute after you’ve left the company? Well, I’ve been talked to by my former employer about such a thing. As an ethical [...]
Apple’s battery recall
Apple has decided to recall over a million Sony manufactured batteries today. The only reason that I mention it is that it affected me. I have a Mac Powerbook and had one of my 2 batteries match the numbers needing recall. Kathy helped me (cause I was busy with other stuff) get on the Apple [...]
Thanks, Wierd Al!
It’s been a while since I laughed this much about a serious topic. I got this from A Typical Joe so thanks. Here is a Weird Al song talking about the RIAA and copying songs. It’s absolutely hilarious and you should definitely go follow the link and listen to the song – Don’t Download This [...]
Recording Industry Bans a Musician From Charts
Not only is the recording industry going after customers by sueing them (mothers, children, dead people even!), but they are now even going after the people they supposedly represent. Here is an article about a young artist getting banned from a music chart created by the BPA. The BPA is the British equivalent of our [...]
RIAA is critisized!
I know that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) – the enforcement arm of the recording industry and the folks responsible for sueing over 1800 individuals for allegedly copying illegal songs off of the internet (and as we’ve seen from recent news, many of these were probably innocent!). I posted this article (http://www.digitalprosound.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=55781) about [...]
The RIAA and Judiciary Committee …
… are trying to sneak one by us. Take a look at this EFF post regarding how the RIAA and Judiciarry Committee are trying to put a new bill up to change the terms of copyright license needs with regards to electronic media. It’s bad. I’m not truly sure how bad as some of the [...]
The RIAA is insane
I came across this link about the four major music labels filing a suit against XM radio over at Thomas Hawk. Now the thing about the post (he gets the information from the EFF) is that it points out how out of control and insane the music industry and RIAA are (and by connection, anyone [...]
Net Neutrality
I know this is a complex issue as is noted in this post on how Net Neutrality has become a partisan issue. Ultimately, though this is about whether or not the companies that have control over the “pipes” that provide internet traffic to both suppliers of information (i.e. Google, Yahoo, Ebay…) and users of information [...]
Miss USA came from Kentucky
I don’t really follow these kinds of things (pageants and award shows) but since I’m from Kentucky I couldn’t let this one go by. Here is a post about Miss Kentucky being crowned Miss USA. I guess they grow them good lookin’ in Kentucky!
President and Congress doing bad!
Nearly all the technology experts with any creditiblity are shouting that patent and copyright law need to be reformed along with the DCMA law being thrown out, our <sarcasm>wonderful</sarcasm> President and Congress are ignoring all that advise and instead going off and doing exactly what the big corporations want as represented through organizations like the [...]
An experiment at Microsoft
A past friend (I guess he’d be a current friend if I’d have kept in touch better) made a post regarding an experiment about Flexible Office Space at Microsoft. Adam Barr is a sharp guy and does a quick but nice analysis. One thing I’ve always like about Microsoft is that it’s not afraid to [...]
French Law breaks ground
There are many links floating around the blog world regarding a new French Law that would require broad interoperability for digital players. Here is one link which discusses it’s impact a little further. I personally am impressed by the courage that democratic leaders which are probably under similar financial pressures as our own have decided [...]