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18 April 2012
Another Reason Why DRM Is Bad -- For Publishers
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As a way of fighting unauthorized sharing of digital files, DRM is particularly stupid. It not only doesn't work -- DRM is always bro...
14 March 2012
Submission to Consultation on Copyright: Exceptions
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In my previous post about submitting a reply to the UK government consultation on copyright, I concentrated on one area, that of orphan ...
02 September 2010
Foreworld as Foretaste
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I'm am currently staggering to the end of Neal Stephenson's The Confusion , loving every minute of this impossible, wandering, hyper...
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14 June 2010
Shame on Ofcom, Double Shame on the BBC
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Readers with good memories may recall a little kerfuffle over an Ofcom consultation to slap DRM on the BBC's HD service: if this scheme ...
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05 April 2010
The DRM of Government Policy
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One area that I have been covering increasingly is that of open government. The parallels with the other opens are not immediate, but there...
01 April 2010
Last Chance to Save BBC from DRM
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Six months ago, I wrote about a shabby attempt to slip through a major change at the BBC that would entail adding DRM to its HDTV output. Th...
22 November 2009
A Modest Proposal: "How to Fix Capitalism"
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"How to Fix Capitalism" is an insanely ambitious post that ranges over, well, just about everything concerned with business and a...
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03 November 2009
ACTA's All-out Assault on the Internet
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Michael Geist has some deeply disturbing details about what may well be in the Internet section of ACTA: 1. Baseline obligations inspired...
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10 September 2009
Marriage Made in Hell: FOI+DRM
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This is not as it's supposed to be: Secretive management at Southampton University are undermining the spirit of Freedom of Information...
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14 May 2009
Is this Cool-er than Amazon's Kindle?
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Amazon's Kindle runs GNU/Linux, which is no surprise given its suitability for these kind of consumer systems. The Kindle is fast establ...
16 April 2009
Is RMS Entering the Fray Again?
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The influence of RMS on the world of free software and beyond is, of course, immense. But sometimes his presence is more symbolic than real...
31 January 2009
I'm Sorry, Joi, I Can't Do That
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Is Joi Ito barking ? In the future according to Ito: "Every object on the Internet will have a licence and copyright information and th...
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30 January 2009
Defining the Limits of Digital Britain
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“Digital Britain” sounds like one of those embarrassingly feeble attempts to make dull things trendy, like “Cool Britannia” a few years ago....
22 January 2009
DRM's Deathmarch
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Nice post from Ed Felten summarising the slow but unstoppable death of DRM. Telling tidbit: it's interesting to see traditional DRM su...
21 January 2009
Microsoft's Cunning Plan: DRM Costs More
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You've got to give it to Microsoft: they really think outside the box. After all, who else would have come up with the brilliant wheeze...
04 January 2009
DRM as Freedom-Eating Infection
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I've often written about DRM, and how it is antithetical to free software. But here's an interview with Amazon's CTO, which pr...
28 November 2008
The Outlook for Vista Gets Even Worse
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As someone who has been following Microsoft for over 25 years, I remain staggered by the completeness of the Vista fiasco. Microsoft's c...
21 November 2008
BBC: No Comment is Good Comment
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Graham Steel has asked me what I think about this : BBC shows including EastEnders, Heroes and Never Mind The Buzzcocks will be available t...
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04 November 2008
Blu-ray's DRM Pixie Dust Defeated
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Why do people persist in believing that DRM can ever be effective for long? A small group of dedicated researchers over on the Doom9 forum ...
13 October 2008
Maybe Erik *Will* Deliver...
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I have been gently reminding Erik Huggers about his confidence that there would be a GNU/Linux version of iPlayer that included the time-l...
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