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Scholarly paper on the ineffectiveness of using ISPs to police copyright - Boing Boing
Andrew A. Adams (University of Reading) and Ian Brown (Oxford Internet Institute) have just released a new paper on the risks that we face now that the entertainment industry wants to augment DRM with ISP surveillance and termination of accused infringers. They argue that all the evils that arose from ineffective DRM will be magnified by ineffective ISP termination, that the music and film industries will be no richer, and that the public will be at much greater risk of censorship and unfair disconnection from their education, work, health information, families, free speech, and civic engagement via the Internet.
xkcd - A Webcomic - Steal This Comic
Remember, if you pirate something, it's yours for life.
TechCrunchIT » Blog Archive » The New Apple Walled Garden
Geeks and enthusiasts wearing Wordpress t-shirts, using laptops covered in Data Portability, Microformats and RSS stickers lined up enthusiastically on Friday to purchase a device that is completely proprietary, controlled and wrapped in DRM. The irony wa
Daring Fireball: It Is Estimated That NBC Could Not Have Screwed This iTunes Thing Up Any Worse
The rough price for a TV episode has already been established at roughly $2 a pop. It’s called the DVD box set. Most network shows have 24 episodes per season. Most season-spanning box sets cost between $40-60, at most. At $5 per episode, it would cost
The iPhone Inaugurates a Dangerous New Era for Apple Boss Steve Jobs -- New York Magazine
It’s a stunning box, a wizard object with a passel of amazing features (It’s a phone! An iPod! A Web browser!). But for all its marvels, the iPhone inaugurates a dangerous new era for Jobs. Has he peaked?
BBC NEWS | Technology | DVD DRM row sparks user rebellion
The debate has put the initial crack and, what some see as the heavy-handed tactics of the licensing authority to combat it, back in the headlines. It will also spark a fresh debate on how far user-generated content can be censored.
Spinning Into Oblivion - New York Times
The major labels wanted to kill the single. Instead they killed the album. The association wanted to kill Napster. Instead it killed the compact disc. And today it’s not just record stores that are in trouble, but the labels themselves,
How I Became A Music Pirate - Consumerist
It's not free music that drives some people to piracy, it's the lack of a quality product from legitimate music sources.
Linux Today - Editor's Note: The Next Hurdle for Desktop Linux
In other words, this is going to be a bit more than a driver catch-up problem. If you are a Linux user with one of these cards, unless your software can work with this DRM protection scheme, you won't be able to enjoy the full benefits of HD content.
New York teen sues record industry
A New York teen, dubbed a pirate by the Record Industry, is counter suing them for defamation, violating anti-trust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Feeding Frenzy | PBS
We are poised at the start of a revolution in user-generated content that is actually both useful and valuable. Social networking's ability to create small but measurable markets and new content creation technologies' ability to make cost-effective -- eve
NETRIBUTION - Torrents, piracy and beyond: will the film industry survive?
I just hope that when the final pieces come together they don’t come attached... as simply a continuation of the US-centric, shareholder-accountable media world built around a drive to increase profit margins.
hymn -- decrypt iTunes and iPod music / unprotect AAC files (m4p --> m4a)
The purpose of the Hymn Project is to allow you to exercise your fair-use rights under copyright law. The various software provided on this web site allows you to free your iTunes Music Store purchases (protected AAC / .m4p) from their DRM restrictions wi
Politicians smell votes in Sweden's file-sharing debate - Technology - International Herald Tribune
Many experts say that, in the end, an alternative to current copyright legislation will have to be created, and that a global fee is one likely solution.
A load of C.R.A.P. - At The Whiteboard - ZDNet
Why does he think this technology is crap? Once you've bought music or other content to play on one device, it won't play on any other device because of the proprietary layer of CRAP.
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