Archive for March 27th, 2006

DRM Link-posting

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Ha-ha, take that RIAA, you fascist Nazi bastards.

seriously though, the above is a nice little description of why the music industry is having such a problem - “It’s the business models that need changing, not the technology,” said Brown, whose doctoral thesis in part covered DRM technologies…“Fundamentally, it’s an antiuser technology - it’s a technology that allows content owners to provide data to their customers with restrictions on how they can use it that aren’t justified by copyright law.”

amen.

  

Upset City

Monday, March 27th, 2006

For those who don’t follow the Best Two Weeks of Sports (other than the Olympics), history was made yesterday. 11th-seeded George Mason upset UConn in OT to reach the Final Four. (further commentary to be posted when work slows down.)