A wonderful rant about the state of music on the web, on the desktop, and in online stores, from one of the people behind Winamp, Gnutella and Yahoo's online store. Second thing I've seen online recently comparing iTunes to a spreadsheet. Hm.

"Higher Quality DRM-Free Tracks Now Available on the iTunes Store Worldwide" and Apple just make the "launch in May" deadline. Requires iTunes 7.2, it seems. Wonder why. EMI videos are DRM free too.

More on that bluebeat.com DMCA legal action, in case you thought the previous link was too insane to be real.

CEO of company that's suing Microsoft, Adobe and Real explains why Sound Recorder is evil copyright infrigement technology (no, really). After all, "stream rippers are [...] costing the entertainment industry $20 to $50 billion annually". Apparently.

Tom on the latest Python-DAAP release. Includes a useful history of authentication (Wikipedia used to not know about the 4.2/4.5 releases, for example) and also ponders DAAP as a de-facto open source standard.

"Having seen which way the wind is blowing, Mr Jobs now wants to be seen not as DRM’s defender, but as a consumer champion who helped in its downfall." He's reacting, but quickly enough to be seen as leading. Cunning.

ORG seems to have grown a delicious account. Suw needs to watch out for the character limit on delicious comm

Ah, so this is where all that gdb linkage sprung from. Interesting, anyway.

Once upon a time both his cracker and wrapper code would have been released under the GPL already. Maybe Johansen decided he wanted to make money, not just get respect.

The actual report of the All Party Internet Group that's getting featured on news.bbc and slashdot.

Managing to take something that looks like a standard buffer overflow in the browser side and link it to DRM and rootkits? Typical Cory paranoid bat raving

Don't worry about trusted computing: worry about why it's being invited into products, and by who

Corrected, but still, Cory can be a complete moron about this stuff

A bit more human-readable detail of what JHymn does, including how iTunes 4.7.1 uses watermarking to enforce DRM

There's a couple of factual errors (or at least, things that don't ring true), but it's kind of interesting