Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
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 »
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 ...
Posted in Business, Electronics, Entertainment, Financial, Hardware, Misc, Movies, Music, opinion | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Business, File Sharing, Financial, Internet, Movies, Music, mpaa, opinion, riaa | No Comments »
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
VLC media player is a "does it all" multimedia player that can handle an assortment of audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, and so on). It can also deal with DVDs, VCDs, and several streaming protocols.
VLC can also be used as a server to stream ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
The various messes with the RIAA continue getting worse. In one case for example Oklahoma State University ended up having to bow to an order to respond to an RIAA subpoena demanding a list of students names. Attorneys for the school emailed the list of names to the ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Big Content providers and the French music industry have managed to get the French government to go along with an insane plan that is going to require ISPs to monitor p2p file sharing and in effect become internet cops, cutting off people's access if the ISPs decide that they're illegally ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
This ought to be interesting. Some law students in Maine is taking on the RIAA. The University of Maine School of Law’s Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic have decided to defend fellow students against another one of the RIAA's efforts to squash any semblance of freedom when it comes ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
In an interesting move, a judge has ordered the RIAA to come up with expense information. Finally somebody is forcing them to justify the insane claims they've been making in their mad rush to sue anybody that's ever downloaded something without paying their blackmail.
Maybe now the truth will start ...
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