August 2008 – Rocknerd

And what you gonna say in private?

27 August, 20086 September, 2016 Your rights 1

The ridiculously widely publicised default judgement against a filesharer has attracted the sort of attention they’d probably rather it hadn’t. Michael Coyle of Lawdit

The Wall of Hair.

22 August, 20083 January, 2013 Pop 0

From the same company that brought you the Black Velvet Wesley Crusher.

I love MySQL with a love only Hans Reiser could understand.

21 August, 2008 Rocknerd 0

I got sick enough of this with Squishdot. MySQL just ate itself all by itself and had to be restored from backups. Fortunately, I

Bono disappears up his own arse (again).

20 August, 20081 April, 2017 Rock 0

In a response to Rolling Stone’s review of the reissue of U2’s early album Boy, Bono likens The Edge to Van Gogh and recording

Woman fined £16,000 in apparently nonexistent court case.

19 August, 20086 September, 2016 Your rights 0

Davenport Lyons, “a leading London law firm,” has put out a press release, which has been run as-is by large chunks of the press,

My memory has just been sold.

18 August, 200818 August, 2008 Media 0

The zombie technology of the magazine suffers the final insult: Mygazines.com, a magazine-sharing site. The hard part in nailing them for this blatant copyright

Never mind the money, you’re not getting paid anyway.

17 August, 200820 May, 2017 Industry 0

Radiohead’s In Rainbows did zillions of copies through bittorrents and filesharing, suggesting they’re replacing the radio, not the CD. Not that the death of

Sister Morphine grown up.

16 August, 200816 August, 2008 Drugs 0

Amy Winehouse should be so lucky to survive, and thrive, as Marianne Faithfull has done.

Join us now and free the photos.

16 August, 200816 August, 2008 Media 2

One of my other pastimes is Wikipedia. We’re all about the free-as-in-freedom content — not just no-cost with-permission, but wide-open to reuse, including commercially.

There’s a ghost in my house.

15 August, 200815 August, 2008 Rocknerd 2

I stopped by the Wayback Machine yesterday and found a pile of classic Rocknerd. This is slowly being hand-restored. (Mostly my own stuff first.)

The deaf watchmaker.

15 August, 2008 Your rights 0

Sorry, EMI — fair use is possible in sound recordings. Even for duplicitous creationist nutters no sane person would want to be associated with.

It’s not surprising we’re misunderstood, with this Somerset accent.

14 August, 200826 December, 2016 Games 0

Cliff Harris from small game company Positech asked why people pirate his games. In what could be a shining example to anyone in music

Au clair de la lune.

14 August, 200814 August, 2008 Audio 0

Hard disks are cheap; cultural preservation is forever. (Mind you, I still so so so want one of these.) Bonus: The earliest known sound

Gets you jumping like a real live wire.

13 August, 20088 September, 2016 Film 1

When Uwe Boll* calls [*may not be 100% true], Richard O’Brien listens. (Or not.) ‘Cos adaptations make the world go round. (1944 Marxist sociology

Magnetically-energised oxygenated mineral water for dogs.

13 August, 200813 August, 2008 Audio 0

The drink of audiophiles. The only thing I can see wrong is it’s far too cheap. (Spotted by Wechsler.) (Bonus link: a magnetic thing

Yak Shaving Day!

12 August, 2008 Audio 1

Exact Audio Copy is the Chuck Norris of CD rippers. It turned a rotted old demo CD-R by the Deadites (from back when CD-Rs

There is nothing more irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ethernet binge.

11 August, 200813 August, 2008 Drugs 0

I can’t wait for peer-to-peer drug networks. Those headphone audiophools were onto something. If only Anthony Burgess had thought of “personal stereos.” (spotted by

Quis indagator Æthiopicus qui sicut mechana futuit?

11 August, 200811 August, 2008 R'n'B 0

Obituary of the year.

You don’t own me.

10 August, 2008 Your rights 0

It’s scientifically proven: keeping everything in copyright forever leads to a tragedy of the anticommons. (Despite Cliff Richard’s pleas on behalf of continuing royalties