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Sony BMG faces the music

Sony BMG faces the musicThis is what happens when the customer is not the #1 priorityThis is what happens when the customer is not the #1 priority.This is why I have problems with DRM. Because it places the company as #1 instead of the customer. When the needs of the...

Tags: Rootkits, Sales strategy, Digital rights management (DRM), Sony BMG Music Entertainment, rootkit, CD, sales, Van Zant, Sony Corp., Get Right, digital-rights management, Amazon.com Inc., Trey Anastasio

Discussion threads 2005-11-30

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Piano nanowires

Dutch researchers have made what they call the worlds smallest piano wire. In fact, these wires are made of carbon nanotubes measuring approximately 1 micrometer long and approximately 2 nanometers in diameter. After attaching these nanotubes to electrodes and applying alternating current of various frequencies, the nanotubes started to vibrate...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Science &, Nature, Nanotechnology, nanotube

Blog posts 2006-11-28

How to stop Hollywood and Congress from trampling on your constitutional rights

Earlier today, I wrote a blog entry entitled The day the broadcast died. It talks about how the RSS subscription protocol has been married to TV programming in a way that could completely disintermediate the current channels of TV program distribution. In response, you should expect the entertainment...

Tags: U.S. Congress

Blog posts 2005-11-15

The DRM grinch who stole Christmas

The DRM grinch who stole ChristmasThe solution, everyone just use MS products.Actauly products that support the MS formats. (MS is not like Apple and doesn't sell the hardware.)Sort of like using a browser to view ZDNet pagesor use the talkbacks...Why can't you people get it together?Ever wonder whyalmost none...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, MP3, Sony DRM, digital-rights management, Apple Inc., AAC, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2005-11-15

Sony stops DRM cd's - temporarily

Sony BMG announced today they will stop producing cd's with the DRM rootkit technology. But, according to the eWeek article, it's temporary. So what does that mean? There is no indication of duration of "temporary" or what happens next. Meanwhile, the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF is seeking peoples'...

Tags: digital-rights management, Sony Corp., copy protection, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Blog posts 2005-11-11

Sony halts production of 'rootkit' CDs

Sony halts production of 'rootkit' CDsGo down in flames SonyI hope you learn your lesson from this little stunt.A small victoryNT.Still haven't learned..."We stand by content protection technology as an important tool to protect our intellectual property rights and those of our artists."No, no, no!!! Your tool to protect...

Tags: Rootkits, Intellectual property, Sony Corp., CD, rootkit

Discussion threads 2005-11-11

Advantage - Macintosh

There are plenty of reasons to use a Mac; great software and hardware, the iPod, but perhaps the best reason is security.It's pretty well known that the Macintosh is a great platform because of the lack of viruses, trojans and malware that targets it. It's one rare case where less...

Tags: Apple Macintosh

Blog posts 2005-11-04

Open source lessons from the Sony scandal

Open source lessons from the Sony scandalWhy just open source?I think your lessons should be widely heeded by proprietary closed source software companies as well. Selling crippled products, installing programs without consumer consent, damaging your customers' property are all things to be avoided, no matter the type of license...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, open source, digital-rights management, Sony Corp., Tony

Discussion threads 2005-11-03