Copy Protected CD’s are Worthless
What is it going to take to get the music recoding and production industry to wake up. After all how many people actually listen to an actual CD these days. My 99 disk CD player was sold at a garage...
View ArticleSeems 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...
View ArticleSony Rootkit dilemma grows turns out Rootkit is calling home!
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...
View ArticleDan Gillmor puts the smack down on Sony who get Idiots of the year award!
It’s been a long time since I say as many people get as mad as they have about Sony. Their brand is now forever tarnished and if they don’t start firing people and making liberal financial compensation...
View ArticleFCC Commissioner loves DRM!
Well if the headline isn’t enough to make fresh milk sour, I don’t know what will. It seems the newest commissioner at the FCC loves DRM and is going to make it her mission to get on a pulpit and use...
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Copy Never Flag has TiVo Series Three signing the blues
A TiVo Series Three Receiver was on my shopping list for this Christmas season. I have been watching the reviews of the unit and the new C|Net review of the Series III that I saw today makes me wonder...
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GNC-2006-12-29 #228
Last show of the year so I do some wrap up stats and of course bring you a full line of tech with a special performance at the end of the show by my two aspiring artist here in the house. Digg us on...
View ArticleDRM solves nothing
I have made no secret of my opinion that DRM does nothing to limit illegal copying. Non-circumvention and usability are incompatible goals. What DRM does is seriously inconvenience users. The...
View ArticleMLB proves that DRM sucks.
Major League Baseball has decided to change their DRM provider. This has been a big job for them, having to build a completely new system and transfer all their content across. There is also the...
View ArticlePandora Should Leave USA
I don’t know how Pandora works. I just know it does. Pandora is an online music service I’m sure most of you have heard of if not used. I started using it last year and I absolutely love it. It learns...
View ArticleWhy I Like Amazon Music
I have been a consumer of Amazon MP3′s for at least two years. Probably longer. I choose to buy music through the Amazon MP3 downloader above almost anything else. One simple reason: no DRM. Amazon...
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Music Downloads for Linux
Last night, I downloaded some music from Amazon for the first time and I was both irritated and pleasantly surprised by the experience. I’d gone to Amazon because I’m not an iPod owner and wanted to...
View ArticleWhat Breaking Electronic Locks Means to the Blind
The Library of Congress, in a regular review of digital copyright laws, made a few adjustments last week. They declared that jailbreaking a device is perfectly legal, that breaking code on games is...
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Hauppauge Colossus HD Video Recorder PCI Express Card
Ken Plotkin, the CEO of Hauppage (www.hauppauge.com), describes the Colossus HD H.264 Video Recorder PCI Express card for the PC. The Colossus card is designed to record high definition video from...
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Is Google Stealing Our History from the British Library?
The British Library and Google have partnered to digitise 250 000 books from the period of 1700 to 1870, an era of political change starting with the French Revolution and ending with the abolition of...
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Free eBooks From Your Local Library
These are tough economic times and if you want to save yourself a few pennies, stop buying ebooks, join your local library and borrow ebooks for free. The OverDrive Media Console app lets you download...
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