DRM and Friends

This one’s been kicking around in my head for a while, and maybe you can all help me understand it. With any contemporary social networking site, I can control...

Mainstream Media is Really Hard

In his post this weekend , Rex Sorgatz points out that “mainstream media is hard”. It’s a truth I know firsthand — I used to work both in the music industry and...

Metadata

So, now that all the non-DRMed songs from the iTunes store will have your name embedded in them after download, how long until every illegally downloaded song’s...

the public domain

The beautiful thing about Cory’s speech being in the public domain isn’t merely that I could make an HTML version called Cory Doctorow: Microsoft Research DRM...

XP Media Center as Tivo data source

The Times has a pretty good write-up of Microsoft’s XP Media Center OS that’s coming out. I’ve seen some demos, and it is pretty impressive, especially since...