Inspired again this morning by a Clay Shirky twitter (this microblogging might have legs you know) Dear AAPL, re offer to upgrade to iTunes+ at $0.30 a song: Go fuck yourselves. I took yr stupid DRM off myself, too late to bill me now This reminds me (a) of a great gaping void cartoon: And… Continue reading Indecent pricing
Category: DRM
Making music history
This weekend marks two endings. One very sad and one very happy. In this article, Andrew Orlowski sums up the love/hate relationship Manchester had with Anthony H Wilson, who died this weekend. A founder of the legendary Factory records and TV journalist, I remember vividly the first time I saw Anthony Wilson, on Other Side… Continue reading Making music history
Right on the money
Probably the most interesting debate at the moment in digital is about DRM. Digital Rights Management - the attempt to restrict and control the distribution of copyrighted digital (entertainment) content - has a sort of farsical quality. Typically DRM only really impacts on all the sorts of people who would never dream of copying… Continue reading Right on the money
I predict a riot
Very interesting to read Antony's two articles about the happenings at Digg: Ey up, there's trouble at t'Digg... and Thoughts on the Great Digg Revolt of 2007. Digg, obviously, is a folksonomy or bookmarking-popularity site, and a large number of its users were pointing the way to a crack for encryption of high-def DVDs.… Continue reading I predict a riot