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 [...]

Another DRM Success Story

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

DRM victories march on after Google sunk it its movie customers in August and at the same time warned us all of the joys of Digital Rights Management the fine folks at Major League Baseball decided they want to get into the act so they just turned off the servers that let you watch the [...]