Why not cheer up your readers with a string of album giveaways? The Times gives you music for global financial crises: Closer by Joy
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“DRM-free” as blatant lie.
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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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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And what you gonna say in private?
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
Read MoreThe Wall of Hair.
From the same company that brought you the Black Velvet Wesley Crusher.
Read MoreI love MySQL with a love only Hans Reiser could understand.
I got sick enough of this with Squishdot. MySQL just ate itself all by itself and had to be restored from backups. Fortunately, I
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Bono disappears up his own arse (again).
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
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Woman fined £16,000 in apparently nonexistent court case.
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,
Read MoreMy memory has just been sold.
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
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Never mind the money, you’re not getting paid anyway.
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
Read MoreSister Morphine grown up.
Amy Winehouse should be so lucky to survive, and thrive, as Marianne Faithfull has done.
Read MoreJoin us now and free the photos.
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.
Read MoreThere’s a ghost in my house.
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.)
Read MoreThe deaf watchmaker.
Sorry, EMI — fair use is possible in sound recordings. Even for duplicitous creationist nutters no sane person would want to be associated with.
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It’s not surprising we’re misunderstood, with this Somerset accent.
Cliff Harris from small game company Positech asked why people pirate his games. In what could be a shining example to anyone in music
Read MoreAu clair de la lune.
Hard disks are cheap; cultural preservation is forever. (Mind you, I still so so so want one of these.) Bonus: The earliest known sound
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Gets you jumping like a real live wire.
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
Read MoreMagnetically-energised oxygenated mineral water for dogs.
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
Read MoreYak Shaving Day!
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
Read MoreThere is nothing more irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ethernet binge.
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
Read MoreQuis indagator Æthiopicus qui sicut mechana futuit?
Obituary of the year.
Read MoreYou don’t own me.
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
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