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Apple is at war with its users

September 28, 2007

“Information wants to be free..” or so said Marshall McLuhan. Steve Jobs should heed this as a warning, rather than just using McLuhan’s image as a marketing shill as Apple did during its “Think Different” campaign. Apple’s customers, embracing the simplicity of its products, want to move their music and movies around (particularly ones they [...]

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Copy Protection is the Enemy of Content Distribution

May 24, 2007

The MPAA has, believe it or not, heard you. You want to copy the material you buy, for use in other devices, etc. You want to, as someone once said, be able to “Rip. Remix. Burn.” your media. And why not? You paid for it. MPAA Boss Dan Glickman is actually a proponent of home [...]

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AOL Slaps Nullsoft AGAIN!

May 31, 2003

Begin forwarded message: > From: Gregory Alan Bolcer > Date: Sat May 31, 2003 3:57:02 PM US/Pacific > To: FoRK > Subject: Re: waste testbed > Reply-To: gbolcer [at] endeavors [dot] com > > Wow. Deja Vu all over again. Those dang > Nullsofter’s causing the exact same problems they > did 3 years ago. [...]

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Starving Music Fans Cling to Former Glory..

September 30, 2002

Nasty URL below. In a great tribute to the mediocrity currently being propagated by the Music Industry, rock fans are spreading an old garage track recorded by Nirvana just prior to Cobain’s suicide like wildfire over GNUtella. It’s further testimony to the milquetoast pseudogrunge coming from imitators like Creed, Nickelback and Default; all of whom [...]

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Napster Goes Unmourned to the Grave

September 6, 2002

Morpheus got slammed because it installed “GATOR”. Gator is evil. It tracks your web surfing, “sells” unused cycles on your computer, and targets banner advertising. As an added bonus, it’s buggy, is a memory pig, and the company is run by a bunch of crooks. I use LimeWire. For the uninitiated, all of the clients [...]

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Napster Goes Unmourned to the Grave

September 5, 2002

The death of Napster is not so much a signifier of the victory of the RIAA over the infidels as it is of the defeat of companies which had no identifiable business plan.. -Ian. ———– http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020904/wr_nm/ media_napster_reaction_dc Napster Goes Unmourned to the Grave Wed Sep 4, 1:38 PM ET By Bernhard Warner, European Internet Correspondent [...]

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