Customers loathe and despise DRM. What’s a marketer to do? Advertise products as “DRM-free” when they’re nothing of the sort! After Sony and Nokia
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Month: September 2008
One more such victory will utterly undo us.
*ahem* I told you so.
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DRMed, limited “DRM-free unlimited” music services on mobile phones.
DAS BUNKER, British Phonographic Industry, Wednesday (NNGadget) — Sony-Ericsson has announced PlayNow Plus, a new plan for unlimited “DRM-free” music downloads on phones. “Pay,
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Step right up!
The content industry is addicted to control. We tell them over and over again that DRM is mathematically impossible. There is no such thing
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Never gonna run around or desert you.
Rick Astley takes us through his finest Rickrolls. I had someone Rickroll me by phone a couple of months ago.
Read MoreDIY advance copies.
Oasis are giving away three songs from their forthcoming album, Meet The Beatles. Not as downloads — as sheet music. With Arts Council funding,
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Spore: unintelligent design.
Music is too fragmented for anti-DRM campaigns to do much. Games are much more hit-oriented. So Spore is having the crap beaten out of
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God is a Guardian reader
(Or the other way around!) Keith Cameron wrote earlier this year in the Grauniad of all places about the re-release after twenty years of
Read MoreLadeez gemmun. The $2500 THX-certified door.
It’s not a $500 ethernet cable, but you’d better be in serious need of serious silence to drop $2500 on a door. Mind you,
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Metallica “welcome” album leak.
“That’s how things are done these days,” says drummer Lars Ulrich. “Also, there’s the novelty of anyone wanting to listen to a Metallica album.”
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