Category: drm

  • Larry Lessig in action at TED

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    Tom Raftery
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    I watched Creative Commons champion Prof. Larry Lessig‘s fantastic presentation to the TED Conference earlier today in awe. How can you take a subject as potentially mind-numbing as copyright law and turn it into a standing-ovation inducing call-to-arms? Watch the master in action to see: http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf

  • Steve jobs throws the cat among the pigeons!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have written about DRM many times previously and what an evil, anti-consumer, scum-sucking device it is. Many of the comments on these posts disagreed with my position. I really began to doubt my thinking on DRM though when Bill Gates, speaking about DRM seemed to agree with me!: People should just buy a cd…

  • HD DVD DRM cracker interviewed

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    Tom Raftery
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    There is a fascinating interview with muslix64 today on the Slyck.com site. muslix64 is the guy who cracked HD DVD DRM when he released the open source application BackupHDDDVD just before Christmas. HD DVD is one of a pair of new formats of High Definition DVDs (the other format is called Blu-ray). muslix64’s application will…