Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Friday, October 10th, 2008
A good subtitle for this might be something like: "Why Vista developers shouldn't plan Vegas vacations to celebrate just yet". In a nutshell, they don't need to be celebrating anything about Vista except the day that M$ decides to pull it and get on with something real. That's ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
iPhone users will be interested in news about the class action lawsuit that claims Apple and AT&T Mobility's five-year exclusive voice and data service provider agreement for the iPhone is in violation of the anti-monopoly portions of anti-trust laws
The suit also charges Apple with breaking both Federal and California computer ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Realnetworks new RealDVD program has been causing quite a stir which has now landed in the courtrooms. Hollywood in general, movie studios (can the MPAA be far away? I doubt it.) are all trying to stop the sale of this software that allows people to copy the contents of ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
I read on Slashdot that Wal-Mart is ending support for DRM encumbered music. This is both good and bad news at the same time.
The good news is that with the world's largest retailer moved to DRM Free music last year they gave a LOT of additional momentum to the ...
Posted in Business, DRM, Music, opinion, riaa | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 26th, 2008
There's good and bad here. Good is the fact that the state of Nevada passed a law back in 2005 that as of October 1st this year requires that any business in that state must encrypt all communications that contain personally identifiable information. I wish all states would ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Recently I've decided that I was going to be changing the way I do the occasional website review. I decided that instead of settling with just writing about a site that I would also do a video review in which I could point out the positive and negative points ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
After a whole load of claims, counterclaims and assorted legal wrangling, the FCC has finally issued an order on the matter of Comcast interfering with p2p applications. On 8/20/08 they ordered (pdf) that among other things:
Comcast within 30 days to disclose the details of their unreasonable network management
practices, submit ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Way back in '85 when I got my first computer I knew that there had to be a way to use it to make money. While I was going about life pretty much the same as most folks, from one day to the next, I would occasionally revisit the ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
I just ran across an item on TorrentFreak that gives some hope for file sharing enthusiasts.
It seems that the German judicial system has been overrun by various anti-P2P efforts to prosecute anybody that shares a music track or movie with somebody else. As part of an effort that I ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
The EFF has announced that the ninth circuit appeals court has ruled in the Hepting v. AT&T case that the case is not to be delayed (this time) and is to be sent back to district court where it's supposed to proceed (though the case could well be old enough ...
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