funkaoshi + drm   19

Understanding the market.
On Apple, DRM\'d music, and the people that pay Apple $1 a song for it. Don\'t do that people.
DRM  music 
october 2007 by funkaoshi
Virgin\'s digital music store is closing down.
Reading about what users of the service need to do illustrates why DRM is a really bad idea.
DRM  virgin  music 
september 2007 by funkaoshi
\" The other way to view this, is one USER has purchased the game. Not the whole family. So why should your brother play for free?\"
I\'m sure BioShock is an awesome game and all, but the copy protection on the game is really quite ridiculous.
Bioshock  DRM  CopyProtection  WTF 
september 2007 by funkaoshi
Freedom to Tinker: Sony CD DRM Paper Released.
Felten\'s paper on the Sony DRM scandal is now out for you to read.
Sony  DRM 
february 2006 by funkaoshi
NYT: Buy, Play, Trade, Repeat.
The lead singer of <a href=\"http://funkaoshi.com/blog/ok-go-and-kaiser-chiefs--the-mod-club\">OK Go!</a> writes a short article in the NYT on copy-protected CDs.
OKGo!  Music  DRM 
december 2005 by funkaoshi
Freedom to Tinker: CD DRM Makes Computers Less Secure.
A good overview of the recent Sony DRM fiasco. (For those who don\'t know, the DRM on a recent CD put out by Sony basically installs a <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit\">root kit</a> on your windows PC.)
Sony  DRM  Evil  RootKit 
november 2005 by funkaoshi
Dave Mathew\'s Band explains how to beat the DRM on their new CD.
Dope. They also ask that you petition Apple let iTunes import copy protected CDs.
Geek  DRM 
august 2005 by funkaoshi
Engadget: Princeton to launch DRM’d textbook program.
DRM\'d textbooks are stupider than DRM\'d music.
DRM 
august 2005 by funkaoshi
Daring Fireball: Trusted.
Response to <a href=\"http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/31/apple_to_add_trusted.html\">Cory Doctrow\'s</a> article on Apple and Trusted Computing.
Apple  TPM  TrustetComputing  DRM 
august 2005 by funkaoshi
Why DRM is a bad idea for books.
DRMed ebooks cost lots and break when you upgrade Acrobat. This is exactly why you shouldn\'t buy stuff crippled with DRM. The reply from Amazon is hilarious.
Geek  eBook  DRM 
may 2005 by funkaoshi
Slashdot:The Sony/MP3 Saga Continues.
Sony works hard to make sure their MP3 players are lame.
geek  mp3  DRM 
april 2005 by funkaoshi
Apple de-socializes iTunes.
This is actually old news, but I hadn\'t seen it written about till recently.
Geek  Apple  DRM  Copyright 
march 2005 by funkaoshi
BoingBoing: Cory responds to Wired Editor on DRM.
Another great article on the lameness that is DRM.
Geek  DRM 
january 2005 by funkaoshi

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