Notes"Of course, the sleazy grandma-suing record companies will blame pirates for poor sales, which is much easier than actually signing competent artists who don't crank out shitty music year after year. Most of the steaming heap is not even worth stealing."Unfurl
Notes"When You distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work, You may not impose any technological measures on the Work that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work from You to exercise the right granted to themUnfurl
Notes"In spite of the lack of IP protection for clothing designs—or rather, because of this lack, the authors argue—the fashion industry remains vibrant and profitable"Unfurl
Notes"Amazon's new video-on-demand store may sound like a good idea, but once you take a look at the "agreement" you enter into by giving them your money, that changes."Unfurl
Notes"It is also apparent that AACS will give the option of a computer/player "phoning home" if so chosen, so verify you got a good copy. Fuck that right in the ear. I will never do that, either."Unfurl
Notes"The company will take commercial DVDs and rip them for use on portable devices for $10 for 1 DVD, $20 for 3 DVDs or $30 for 5 DVDs. That is, until their legal department hears what's happening."Unfurl
Notes"EFF has prepared a sample list of tough questions for times when you hear entertainment industry representatives speaking and want to challenge their positions."Unfurl
Notes"Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future."Unfurl
Notes"offer songs as high quality, variable bit rate MP3 files instead. DRM is removed, consumers are happy, and the vast white fields of the iPod are ready for harvest."Unfurl
Notes"According to the metadata from the MP3s, at least one file comes from a Spanish website called GrupoeMusica, an illegal source of music files if I ever saw one."Unfurl
Notes"My CD-ROM is accessible only to cranks and connoisseurs, members of the "dead formats society" who've invested in the dead tech required to play it."Unfurl
Notes"At this weekend's Motor City Comic Con, fans and vendors were abuzz about a police raid on Friday targeting the sale of illegal recordings."Unfurl
Notes"For those who aren't familiar with Mr. Giovanetti's work, he's a frequent and pugnacious commentator on intellectual property issues, and an avowed supporter of the DMCA and digital rights management technologies."Unfurl
NotesThe large Canadian independent label and management company Nettwerk, which has been behind artists from Sarah McLachlan to Severed Heads, has joined the RIAA anti-filesharing lawsuits — on the side of the users being sued.Unfurl
Notes"Digital Rights Managements hurts paying customers, destroys Fair Use rights, renders customers' investments worthless, and can always be defeated. Why are consumers and publishers being forced to use DRM?"Unfurl
Notes"This proposition brought us so much sh*t that it had to be continued on the next fan." Almost shockingly frank discussion of the BBC and BitTorrent - funny too.Unfurl
Notes"NBC issuing a C&D to YouTube makes about as much sense as NBC sending attorneys to the homes of every blogger or Livejournaler user who posted a link to a torrent somewhere -- not to mention the fan-made AIM icons and web banners."Unfurl
Notes"We don't want this technology to be available to every hobbyist. We need to keep the number of licensees down to a manageable number. We charge a license fee to keep the number of people we have to deal with down to a level we can handle."Unfurl
NotesHow not to be a good PR guy: "If you're looking for reasons to boycott StarForce-crippled games (besides the obvious ones), you might add their use of bullying legal threats to your list."Unfurl
NotesI'm almost fine with this, if it can be done in a way that only affects the content of groups who want to opt into this bullshit. Don't cripple devices in the general case, just for the case of these morons. Let their industry commit suicide.Unfurl
NotesYou know what? If they want to protect their steaming piles so badly, they can keep them. I've paid more attention and been more entertained by non-DRM, indie sources lately than anything else. I only expect that to grow.Unfurl
Notes"Having one of the world's largest and currently most powerful IT companies announce that it has constructed a new DRM system and then not reveal a single detail about the technology is just plain unacceptable."Unfurl
Notes"Sam Hocevar found conclusive evidence that part of XCP’s code was copied from a program called DRMS, which he co-authored with DVD Jon and released under the terms of the GPL open source license."Unfurl
Notes"it's a funny kind of contract that is renegotiated at the whim of one side, who can unilaterally change the deal whenever he feels like it, and which you can't get out of if you decide that the new deal isn't one that you like"Unfurl
Notes"Law-abiding people will be paying more for PCs, and doing less with them, because of the Hollywood-decreed micromanagement of graphics system design."Unfurl