As someone who has looked into my own religious foundation and determined that I am more comfortable with a more historically acurate and justifiable theology, I found this article on Slate regarding a particular slant on the Churches position on the virgin birth very interesting. My favorite bit from the article was: ?If a heavenly [...]
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How good is DRM for you?
Over at Freedom to Tinker I found this post on Is DRM Good for you? The post was a discussion from a DRM advocate and the blogger’s response. Here are some of my favorite bits: It?s true in principle that an arrangement can be unwanted but ultimately good for those on whom it is imposed; [...]
Artists against DRM
As I’ve stated, Digital Rights Management as it has been currently implemented by anyone either in our current technology our current legal policies (i.e. DMCA) is making the average user out to be a criminal before they do anything wrong. The RIAA, which represents the large corporations running the music industry, want to remove all [...]
Voter Registration?
I listened to a show recently on our local NPR station regarding voter registration. The local county chapter of the Republic party decided to validate all of the counties voter registration. The Republican party claims that their motivation was many fold: King County (our county) election office says they aren’t allowed to and the Republican [...]
Impact our government has on us…
I was watching the news last night and it became increasingly disturbing at how the choices that the Bush administration – our government – has made are impacting our lives with regards to our worldwide neighbors. Watching the demonstrations in Argentina, which are all targeted at sending a message to President Bush, tell us that [...]
The Movie industry doesn’t get it
Here is a scary story about going to the movies. It’s the counterpart of what DRM is doing to the DVD home viewing experience. Read the story because there really isn’t anything to add: Going to a Paramount Movie Theater movie preview. The Movie industry just doesn’t get how to treat their customers. To them, [...]
Politics – guilty before proof
I’ve been posting a bunch lately on DRM. It’s a common method of the RIAA to assume guilt of the consumer in all their strategies. Well, now it seems that the Republican party in King County (where I live) is taking the same strategy. The Stranger is reporting the the Republican Party is challenging peoples [...]
DRM – we are obviously criminals…
Yessir…it is obvious. At least from the way that the participants are treating us as consumers that we are the criminals. Here is a perfect example with my old company Microsoft. Microsoft, assuming that we consumers are all bad people, tied it’s DRM to the hardware we use. The nasty impact is that if we [...]
DRM – another one out of control
Can you understand why the companies like Sony would retro-fit CD’s with DRM and then mis-lead customers regarding the software and technologies behind them? I sure don’t. Here is a post about the CD-DRM Rootkit from SonyBMG and First4Internet and in reading this it is clear that they mislead the users/public and probably intentionally. These [...]
Creative Commons – needs help
As part of my belief that we need to do what we can to help overhaul our IP and copyright system, I support the effort put out by the Creative Commons. And in so doing, I’ve decided to put a link (over in my meta sidebar) for their fundraising campaign. This effort is important in [...]
Comment on DCMA after Nov. 2nd
Here was a news story about the U.S. Copyright Office taking comments on the DMCA after November 2nd. Clearly, my views are the exceptions of this law need to be expanded to allow common use by consumers such as media backup. This also implies that companies that market products to allow consumers to accomplish these [...]
Walt Mossberg is on the consumer side
The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg’s wrote a post on how the Music and Movie industries are basically treating the consumer as criminals. It’s a very thorough and well thought out article (as are most of Walt’s articles). I got to meet the man once on a press tour at Microsoft. He’s very bright and [...]
An Interenational Guideline? for DRM
I came across a Boing Boing post regarding some rules or guidelines for going forward for countries adopting IP/Copyright management reform and laws. I think the most interesting item is the following: 6. Copyright and patents must be limited in time and their terms must not extend beyond what is proportionate and necessary. In the [...]
DRM vs Fair Use
An interesting notion. I came across a post at Hacking Is Not Fair Us – at Copyfight. On of the most telling quotes is the following: So why should Ross and other DMCA supporters want to restrict lawful uses? Because restricting lawful use can be rewarding. You can’t sell back fair uses of digital media [...]
Broadcast Flag in Europe?
Cory over at EFF has a detailed write up on another tack by the music and movie industries trying to get the broadcast flag in. Check out the post at: DVB Stealth attack on European rights. It’s way more onerous than the US version was. Note that it even has restrictions over analog outputs. Though [...]