Category Archives: copyleft

wired creative commons cd

November 6, 2004 – 16:11

I wanted to mention this because I think the idea rocks. Wired Magazine published a CD with tracks from big time artists licensed under Creative Commons licenses. Even though though the tracks themselves hardly interest me it’s cool to see a good idea like CC is getting some good mainstream media coverage this way. By [...]

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creative commons

October 3, 2004 – 15:28

Even though I ran into the Creative Commons licenses before (at Electrobel for instance) I never really thought of it to use it for a blog license until I ran into Neil Turners blog after some Google search. Not a bad idea actually, even if it’s just because it looks kinda cool to have a [...]

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DRM systems are bad for business

June 30, 2004 – 23:35

So the Beastie Boys have a new album out, which I was looking into getting myself a copy, since I already have most of their other albums, and I’ve always liked their fun approach to hip-hop. It turns out that their latest CD however contains MacroVisions CDS-200 DRM technology which has “features” that stop me [...]

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