Archive for the 'Copyright' Category

Block SOPA

Friday, November 11th, 2011

Terrible law is terrible law. I have written my congress creatures. Please write yours and protest this terrible law. PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

Good Lessig Talk About Conservatives.

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Good talk by Larry Lessig that points out why I have such a hard time choosing a political party.

A Catch Up Post, Squirrel Lite

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

First up, Wal-Mart has decided to turn off its DRM servers and screw its customers who bought from them. Just like Microsoft did and Yahoo did before them. Tell us again about how DRM is the safe way to buy. Next up is the great hobby of reenacting. Rule one, only reenact with people who [...]

Microsoft to Legal Music Fans “Bend Over”

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

So lets say you are a principaled music fan, you only buy legal music online and the whole Digital Rights Management thing never really bothered you. You bought a ton of music from Microsoft, they are the biggest guys in town so you know you are risk free right? Right. Microsoft is about to turn [...]

Buying Music In The Wild West of the 2008 Internet

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Buying music online used to be easy. Either you bought from Itunes, who had the biggest catalog or EMusic who were the only major selling mp3s. The frontier is changing now and I thought I would put up some thoughts and tips for shopping online for music. For the purposes of this I will be [...]

Amazon DRM Free Music Downloads

Friday, December 28th, 2007

I have been really pleased with Amazon’s music download sales, they give you very high quality MP3 files with no restrictions on what you can do with the files built into the files. Their selection is good, they have just added Warner Brothers to the line up and while they don’t have all the small [...]