A few months ago, someone recommended reading Bob Lefsetz’s blog for some honest commentary on the music industry. I took the advice and subscribed. What a loud mouth. I can only imagine how annoying it would be to actually listen to him speak (speak? rant? spew? yabber?). First of all, […]
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Apple’s announcement that they will begin renting films via iTunes seems to me like a small step “ahead” for a struggling service, rather than anything indicative of what true success will be like in the merging area of computers/televisions. Mike Masnick from Techdirt put it best: Rentals make sense for […]
The Standards Blog lists several articles covering this story, but here’s the basic summary. The service pack was released for Microsoft Office 2003 to make it easily to interoperate with Windows Vista and to read Microsoft’s new (troubled and broken) OOXML format that is the default in Office 2007. The […]
William Patry highlights Cary Sherman’s defence of the RIAA against the recent Washington Post article, offering further explaining for the quote that copying a song you bought is a “nice way of saying ‘steals just one song’” from a Sony BMG representative: “The Sony person who (Fisher) relies on actually […]
I take it back. According to TechDirt the Washington Post got it wrong. The RIAA isn’t (yet) insane enough to bring a lawsuit against someone for merely copying files to their computer, but the lawsuit in question is actually one of simply making those files available (which is contestable as […]
A message from QuizSource.org If you like music then you can find some music quizzes on the Internet to suit any tastes. For those who want to do a fun quiz but they aren’t interested in music you can find online quizzes in a wide variety of themes, from quiz […]
While I was very pleased with the proposal the Songwriters’ Association of Canada recently put forth to legalize file sharing in Canada, I couldn’t help but slam my head against the table when reading the “what some music creators have to say” link. With the exception of the a few […]
I read a post by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) on software registration keys today that reminded me that I’d been meaning to write about this. Software is digital through and through, and yet there’s one unavoidable aspect of software installation that remains thoroughly analog: entering the registration key. Doesn’t that […]
Last week, Rogers began experimenting with something called deep packet inspection to insert their own content into web pages that its users view. They began by displaying some users’ account statuses when they visited Google. [Source: http://torontoist.com/2007/12/dr_frankenwebs.php] This is wrong for a variety of reasons. The information may (or may […]