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Posts Tagged ‘Freedom’

from Ars Technica: DMCA hitchikes north to Canada

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

another great music service

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 [...]

EMI drops DRM, sells high quality tunes through iTunes Music Store

Kudos to EMI for being the first (major label) out of the gate to sell digital music online through the iTMS without DRM. It’s worked for other music services such as eMusic, Magnatune and Warp Records (who sell some albums in lossless FLAC!) and it’s nice to see them listening to what people actually want [...]

Songbirds and Cuckoos

There’s been a lot of backlash this week in the mainstream news about Apple, iTunes and the iPod. From sweatshops in Asia to more of Europe beginning to demand an opening of Fairplay DRM and iPod access. Believe it or not, I think this is actually a good thing. Apple has some fairly crappy quality [...]

Musicians OK With Trading

It’s refreshing to see a group of musicians and recording artists decrying the music industry for a change. The newly-formed Canadian Music Creators Coalition was setup to set the record straight about the actual opinions and attitudes of some of Canada’s recording artists. Notably absent was Tom Cockrane – yes, I know I misspelled it. [...]

Q&A with Michael Geist on p2pnet

A nice but brief interview with Canadian Copyright whiz Michael Geist. p2pnet talks to Michael Geist Technorati Tags: Computing, DRM, Entertainment

Downloading doesn’t +hurt the+ recording industry: CRIA

(updated to fix the messed-up title – don’t post while being distracted by calls to lunch, kids! You’ll mess it up and look quite the fool…) OMG. Someone has finally done a study that says exactly what I’ve been saying all along: People who download music often do so as a prelude to buying the [...]

I’m back, baby!

It’s been a little while without a post so I thought I’d drop a few lines out there for the fans. I’ve had a busy week. Last weekend, I flew home to the great land of New Brunswick to pick up my new car (pictures pending). Without going into too much detail, the flight home [...]

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