Y’know I like Apple hardware, right? Some of its stuff is downright magical. The close attention to detail. The minimalist design. The shiny. As a hardware company, I believe there’s nobody that can really touch them. But as a software company, I find many of the arbitrary restrictions Apple places on software developers and vendors [...]
The recent fiasco about Apple limiting an application on iTunes’ AppStore is well-documented. A great comment from the Twittersphere even hints at the kind of dark times this may be the harbinger of. I’ve babbled about how DRM is bad for consumers and bad for the world before. I think it’s important to keep in [...]
From Ars Technica: Canadian Privacy Commissioner: Just say no to intrusive DRM. It’s rare, but once in awhile, you hear something come out of the canadian government that actually makes sense. It’s very nice to see that our privacy commissioner has some excellent people guiding her through the current morass of copyright crap that’s being [...]
I’ve been meaning to get this Nintendo DS homebrew HOWTO out the door in the last month but I keep getting distracted. Right now I’m too pissed to talk about it. Apple’s turned into a complete asshole in the span of about a month. Maybe two. Maybe it’s been brewing for a lot longer than [...]
From Kevin Rose on digg’s blog: Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0: If you read digg, you may have seen something like this last night around midnight: it turns out, those 48 little characters that everyone was appending to everything happen to be a key to unlock HD-DVDs, thereby giving people [...]
The past few nights, I’ve been trying to hook up my iPod to my Xbox to get some LCD Soundsystem out of my speakers while playing the new 3D Ultra Miniputt on the Xbox Live Arcade. This is usually a pretty trivial thing. The past few nights however, I’ve been plagued by the inability to [...]
DMCA hitchikes north to Canada, catches a lift with Conservatives: no no no no no… boolean is listening to: Light’s On from the album “Now Here Is Nowhere” by The Secret Machines Technorati Tags: DRM
Jacob rightly pointed out that I should drop a mention to galleryAC here, since I was talking about services that provided DRMless music. I pointed out that he could’ve left a comment to which he replied, not unexpectedly, that he doesn’t do that (unless you’re a girl). boolean is listening to: 1985 from the album [...]
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