Tag: Digital rights management
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DJNoNo’s First Album – Accordion Hero
DJNoNo – Accordion Hero (Hisstory 2004-2020) by DJNoNo DJNoNo’s First Album – Accordion Hero! (well if you don’t count Ballroom as an album, it is more like mini-album or long EP…that will be posted after this for the full DJNo ‘experience’). 16 years in the making it covers the best and a little of the…
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You Don’t Own MP3, I’m not just one of your many toys…
One of the questions that is thrown around is ‘why do people pirate software or MP3s?’ when there are perfectly good alternatives that are legal. Well one reason might be these ‘legal’ alternatives mostly have license agreements you don’t actually OWN any of it. You rent it with a license that can be taken away…
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DRM Bombscare – new DJNoNo mashup & Germany
Ooh, still recovering from Germany, was a blast and great to see some great sets. Me? I was forced to play this as my set-ender under death threats from the inimitable DJNoNo; he can be very persuasive you know, that’s when you understand what he’s saying. Anyway this is Sound of Music getting the rave…
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This is why DRM is evil
OK I tend not to write too much on the DRM wars sensing I’m probably preaching to the perverted, but occasionally I come across something which is such a good example of why DRM is wrong I have to post it – this is one such occasion (Yahoo is taking it’s DRM servers offline) How…
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Pigs might fly
Rob at Demonbaby (via ravery and arthole on LJ) has posted a great post about the closure of Oink and from an insider’s perspective what is wrong with the record industry. I like particularly this line: I would have gladly paid a large monthly fee for a legal service as good as Oink – but…
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Digital Watermarking – a killer contract
After talking to Glyn over at Open Rights Group at podcamp and then the Andrew Keen lecture, it’s interesting seeing this post by Erik Davis (via Nerdcore and Boing Boing) about a case where an advance promo CD – something that exists as a symbol of trust between music critic and label, has now become…