I recently upgraded my Gen 1 to a iPod 160gb Classic. Probably a dumb decision given that I appear to have only about 12 gigs of music. Oh well. I’m a sucker for big numbers. And while it’s nice…it’s also been a huge pain in the ass. The movie Babel came through our Netflix queue [...]
The last DRM conversation was so much fun, I thought I’d start another one all about Vista. “Vista continuously spends CPU time monitoring itself, trying to figure out if you’re doing something that it thinks you shouldn’t.” – Bruce Schneier “…the content protection technology just uses more resources while providing no benefits at all to [...]
I’ve spent no more than $47 at the iTunes store – despite the increased catalog; movies, music videos, etc. The difficulties of sending my “purchased” music to my new MacBook Pro confirm I have no intention of sending another 99¢ supporting FairPlay. So, you can see why I’m not impressed by the pissing match between [...]
A few articles came out today with interesting takes on digital music DRM. The first is a small blurb about Dave Goldberg, Yahoo’s Music Chief at the Music 2.0 conference where he brings up eMusic as an example of a DRM free distribution model. I like this because a) It’s Yahoo, and they have some [...]