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For some months now, I've been touting "Avatar" as a good example of how the film industry should be concentrating on enhancin...

I always said Brazil was a civilised country: O MinC proporá que a cópia privada de qualquer tipo de obra digital seja permitida sem a auto...

In a decision that shows how ridiculously unclear the situation around copying DVDs is: A federal judge ruled here late Tuesday that it was...

When the going gets tough, the tough...go to the library : Fewer people bought books, CD’s, and DVD’s in 2008 than in the year before. The n...

One of the many flashes of insight that the Asus Eee PC has provided me with is that DVDs are dead. The Eee PC has no CD/DVD drive, but let...

The New York Times has a feature on the Neuros OSD (for open source device): The Neuros OSD connects to your TV or home theater system an...

When are these people going to get a clue ? Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) president Dan Glickman is today lobbying UK film mi...

This is really cool. A little while back I wrote about Ed Felten's generator of 128-bit numbers. Lots of people were using this to ...

I'd seen this decision , but missed its broader significance: A Finnish Court has unanimously ruled that the Content Scrambling System (...

I first saw Kurosawa's Rashomon about 25 years ago. That whole world of black-and-white Japanese films produced in the 50s, 60s and 70...

Last night, my Windows 2000 box died. To be fair, it was nothing to do with Windows, but a dodgy hard disc. And yes, of course I have back...

The genome – the totality of DNA found in practically every cell in our body - is a kind of computer program, stored on 23 pairs of biologic...

Region coding on DVDs is an old throwback to when the world was disconnected, and different parts of it could go their merry ways. But sinc...

Digital Rights Management - or Digital Restrictions Management as Richard Stallman likes to call it - is a hot topic at the moment. It figu...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away - well, in California, about 1994 - O'Reilly came out with something called " Internet in a ...

I wondered earlier whether blogified books were bloks or blooks, and the emerging view seems to be the latter, not least because there is n...

The ever-acute Doc Searls reports on the CES keynote from Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Given Searls' position as an alpha blogger, it was...