I read some good news related to DRM and music releases on the internet last week. Universal is going to start selling DRM-free music “as a test to see how it goes”. According to this Wired article this change of course is a move to try and take some power away from the mighty Apples [...]
Yep, Flickr.com got a bit more “secure” recently, if you can call it that, and I have to say that I’m sorry to find out about it. You see, flickr users posting their nifty pics could disallow surfers like myself from viewing the original photo and only allow the preview on the main photo page. [...]
This is sad isn’t it. Turns out a major Belgian newspaper called De Morgen ripped some guys pictures about the Burning Man festival off his Flickr foto gallery without paying, or even contacting him. This kind of stuff is extra sad because a newspaper should damn well be aware of things like copyright violations and [...]
December 15, 2004 – 23:01
By pure chance I came across this site sproutworks.com that seems to be containing a copy of my blog (actually, I was doing an ego search on Google, but I’d rather not mention that). In fact it copies all blogger.com blogs in a so called Blogger Aggregator by fetching the atom.xml, and storing it in [...]
September 9, 2004 – 20:23
Something scary I read on Wired today : A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that rap artists should pay for every musical sample included in their work � even minor, unrecognisable snippets of music. Though the article focuses mainly on rap artists, who are making big bucks using unknown samples from older funk (or whatever) [...]
I ran into this John B interview by accident while checking what kind of fun stuff could be found on Google when looking up the word “Clownstep”. Now since the guy made some really sweet tracks in the past, and he has a new album out, I thought I’d make the effort and find out [...]
This is amazing, picked it up from slashdot The Senate Judiciary Committee, led by everybody’s favorite senator, Orrin Hatch, is moving to outlaw P2P entirely by making it illegal to produce such applications. The plan is to make p2p apps illegal in The States because they “indice” copyright violation. It’s like WTF!? What kind of [...]
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