Tag: DRM

  • Happy birthday, EFF!

    EFF’s 17th birthday party is tonight at 111 Minna in San Francisco.  Cleverly timed to coincide with Macworld, it features Adrian and the Mysterious D of Bootie fame, and is sponsored by Louis Rosetto’s (of Wired) new chocolate company TCHO.  And they’ll be beta-testing TCHO’s new dark chocolates! [Hmm … DJs, mashups, chocolate.  What does…

  • Four out of four ain’t bad: Sony BMG to throw in towel on DRM

    Catherine Holahan reports in BusinessWeek.com that In a move that would mark the end of a digital music era, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing plans to sell songs without the copyright protection software that has long restricted the use of music downloaded from the Internet, BusinessWeek.com has learned. Sony BMG, a joint venture of…

  • On Mini: “Microsoft’s 2008 – What’s Going Well?”

    Who da’ Punk’s got a new post up on MiniMSFT with a great, and somewhat out-of-character, topic.  Most of the commenters thus far appear to have missed the request “I’d like to know what you honestly think is going well, too”, but it’s early days yet.  The areas Mini lists as going well in his/her/their…