Notes"A tribute to "fair use" and the AP's misguided crusade against the hyperlink. All content on this site was generated automatically from the AP's own RSS feeds. (Sorry, we forgot to include your magic DRM beans.) ā„"Unfurl
Notes"This is ugly for all kinds of reasons. Amazon says that this sort of thing is ārare,ā but that it can happen at all is unsettling; weāve been taught to believe that e-books are, you know, just like books, only better. Already, weāve learned that theyāre not really like books, in that once weāre finished reading them, we canāt resell or even donate them. But now we learn that all sales may not even be final. "Unfurl
Notes"A week and a half ago, Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton made some news for saying that nothing good had come from the internet, period. Plenty of online sites (including ours) took him to task for that, wondering how one gets to be the CEO of a major content company without understanding the internet. Today, Lynton hit back at critics -- not by saying he was quoted out of context or misunderstood, but by standing behind the statement and adding some gems to it as well. Let's take a look..."Unfurl
Notes"Personally, despite my neverending love affair with the written word, Iām getting tired of owning print books. There, Iāve said it. They take up a whole lot of space, they clutter, and theyāre obnoxious to pack (yes, Iāve moved twice in the last five years and that may not be the end of it, how about you?). For my purposes, with most books, ebooks would be far preferable both for one-time and many-time readsā¦ if I could be assured of keeping my many-time reads."Unfurl
Notes"Leave it to Apple (AAPL) to turn the lifting of restrictions into a profit center. If users convert every one of the 9 billion songs purchased from the iTunes Store over the past six years, a rich new revenue stream will flow toward Cupertino. Techcrunchās Erick Schonfeld calls it Appleās ā$1.8 billion music tax.ā"Unfurl
Notes"Thatās me in the DVD. But because the MPAA makes software companies bend over to protect their content by baking DRM into the apps that ship with my computer, Iām prevented from doing legitimate things with my own content. Thankfully, there are ways around it (Jing was more than happy to capture a screenshot - Iām sure the MPAA attack dogs will be closing that hole ASAP)."FeedUnfurl
Notes"All those companies (cough Amazon cough Apple cough) that say they're only doing DRM for now, until they can convince the stupid entertainment execs to ditch it, heed this lesson: you will spend the rest of your corporate life paying for this mistake, maintaining infrastructure whose sole purpose is to lock your customers into a technology restriction that no one really believes in. Welcome to the infinite cost of doing business with Hollywood. "Unfurl
Notes"Hey suckers! Did you buy DRM music from Wal*Mart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they're repaying your honesty by taking away your music. Unless you go through a bunch of hoops (that you may never find out about, if you've changed email addresses or if you're not a very technical person), your music will no longer be playable after October 9th. "Unfurl
Notes"Companies that control various DRM schemes, as well as the content providers themselves, can yank your ability to play the content which you lawfully purchased (and now, videos) at any momentāno matter what your expectation was when you bought it."Unfurl
Notes"The maxim goes that new technologies donāt kill off old media ā radio didnāt kill newspapers, TV didnāt kill radio, etc. But itās not clear this maxim will hold true in the digital age"Unfurl
Notes"Our kids will laugh when weāre 60 and we donāt know which button turns on the garbage disposal and which one vents plasma from the starboard nacelles."Unfurl
Notes"The release of popular rock group Radiohead's new album Wednesday is the latest wake-up call for a music industry still struggling to deal with the advent of digital music, experts say."Unfurl
Notes"Key revocation doesn't work. Suing the Internet doesn't work. DRM doesn't work ... Pirates who download movies don't ever see DRM. Honest customers who buy media are the only people who ever get restricted by it "Unfurl
Notes"In spite of the lack of IP protection for clothing designsāor rather, because of this lack, the authors argueāthe fashion industry remains vibrant and profitable"Unfurl
Notes"The Barenaked Ladies are offering their latest album, āBarenaked Ladies Are Me,ā as a download from their website without digital rights managment."FeedEmbedUnfurl
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"Whatever you do, donāt buy DRMād ebooks. You are just ripping yourself off in the long run." Amen to that. I've bought a few ebooks with DRM, and it was all a waste.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"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
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"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
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"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"I buy the music I listen to, but if you want to sell me music (or any other media for that matter) sell it to me without all this DRM crap all over it. That's not actually going to stop the folks who aren't honest, but it's a bloody inconvenient nuisanceUnfurl
Notes"I will say that we heard a lot in the boom about the death of distance and the erasure of place, but that DRM developers have been working hard (between region coding, location-awareness, geolocation, and proximity detection) to bring place and distanceUnfurl
If you are a pirate, this is what you get... but if you are a PAYING CUSTOMER, this is what you get
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