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Why DRM sucks

October 13, 2008

Steal This Comic | XKCD

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Highly-anticipated Spore game gets hammered by angry would-be customers

September 9, 2008

Spore is one of the most high-anticipated video games in years.
It also comes laced with highly-restrictive Digital Rights Management that only allows you to install the game three times before you have to beg EA for the chance to play again. Additionally, the DRM used by EA is actually a virus-like program that you cannot [...]

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Can governments copyright laws? Should they?

June 19, 2008

Can governments copyright laws? Should they? | BoingBoing

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Attention Big Business: listen to our complaints and give us what we want

February 25, 2008

Cory Doctorow just published a provocative column in the Guardian, “In Defense of Complaining,” in which he argues that complaints, specifically about crippling technology and licensing restrictions, are part of the marketplace in which companies must operate. And he is right. Complaints are the crude way in which consumers tell companies what they want.
Doctorow focuses [...]

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We take you to a meeting of the RIAA

January 4, 2008

From joyoftech.com:

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Already at ludicrous speed, the RIAA goes a bit faster

December 31, 2007

Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing points out that the RIAA’s ludicrous stance on copying CDs for personal use is actually even more ludicrous in light of what they were saying just months ago:
The record companies, my clients, have said, for some time now, and it’s been on their Website for some time now, that it’s perfectly [...]

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RIAA has achieved ludicrous speed

December 29, 2007

In its efforts to bring about the overthrow of copyright protection by adopting arguments more ridiculous than the Bush Administration’s attempts to exclude Dick Cheney from the executive branch, the RIAA is now arguing that it is illegal for you to transfer music from a CD you purchase to your computer for your own, personal [...]

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The 10 worst consumer technology trends

December 10, 2007

From PC World Canada, 10 terrible trends in consumer technology:

10. Closed source technology
9. Over-promising and under-delivering
8. Fanboys
7. Region encoding
6. Licensing Fees
5. Format wars
4. Proprietary File Formats
3. Annoying web ads
2. High cost of wireless data plans
1. DRM

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