"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 28th, 2006
Broadcast Flag hearings turn on iPod use – Engadget Stop the presses! There was something that might pass for intelligent debate on the broadcast flag in a Senate committee. Instead of listening like a cocker spaniel (you know where they have their head cocked and clearly hearing you, but don’t understand a word) to arguments [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 26th, 2006
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 22nd, 2006
Big Content would like to outlaw things no one has even thought of yet If you have any current or future interest in using digital content or consumer rights, take a look at that link. Content providers aren’t content with odious anti-consumer legislation like the DCMA and the broadcast flag. They want to make sure [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 22nd, 2006
DMCA review sparks some well-written comments from the public The two issues mentioned in this piece are the installation of rootkit software has a means of copy protection, like the well known Sony DRM debacle. The second is the odious practice of cell phone locking. In the first case a software company is allowed to [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 2nd, 2006
Boing Boing: Coldplay’s new CD has rules: No MP3s, no DVD players, no car stereos I guess if you like Coldplay you deserve this kind of treatment. Here’s a thought: maybe consumers should stay away from crippled products until music labels come to their senses?
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 22nd, 2005
Technology News: Legal Issues : MPAA Applauds Digital Content Security Act By default if the ass clowns at the MPAA like it, then I hate it. Same shit different day, they want the government to legislate the creation of a DRM system to protect them from the evil of the public using a Tivo, video [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 10th, 2005
Mark’s Sysinternals Blog: Sony: You don’t reeeeaaaally want to uninstall, do you? Sony has “released” a “patch” that’s supposed to remove the bullshit DRM root-kit crap they installed of the PC’s of hapless end users. Mark Russinovich has this to say on his blog: Sony has told the press that they’ve made a decloaking patch [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2005
This little tidbit is from the InformationWeek Weblog: InformationWeek Weblog: Sony Is Just As Bad As Music Pirates In a nutshell Sony is installing rootkit software on hapless user’s system without any prior disclosure. Sony responded to criticism by releasing a patch that can crash windows. The rootkit also allows much less sophisticated hackers to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2005
Intel, Microsoft And The Coming DRM Clampdown – TechWeb Microsoft Vista creates DRM insanity – The Inquirer By now it’s becoming pretty clear that the age of digital rights management is upon us. Thieves, of course, don’t have a whole lot to fear from DRM, since they’re of a mind to ignore those protections that [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jun 27th, 2005
Posted in Blog Post on May 28th, 2005
Lookout, the RIAA is going to trumpet this lack of evidence to ramrod an expansion of copyright law through Congress. Terrorist link to copyright piracy, alleged. – ZDnet News
Date: 09/18/2005