Archive for March, 2006

Lawrence Lessig Blog Mention

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

There’s a famous question that asks: “If you could choose just three famous people to have dinner with, who would they be?” At the top of my list would be Lawrence Lessig. His biggest influence is on the balance between copyright ownership and culture’s requirement for freedom of information. From his […]

Wronged by Digital Rights

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Waves Ltd. considers Beatnik Turtle to be a criminal.

We’d like to feel special on this one, but actually we’re not alone. It’s more fair to say this:
WAVES LTD. CONSIDERS ALL OF ITS CUSTOMERS TO BE CRIMINALS.
Which would make sense if they sold, say, lockpicks. But instead, Waves makes plugins for recording tools. […]

Righting a Digital Rights Wrong

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

Digital Rights Management (DRM) doesn’t only affect major label musicians, it now directly affects independent bands as well. By way of a short introduction here, DRM is a method by which it’s possible to use technologies to limit what people can do with music, video, or other works. Often, it affects […]

Academically My Dear

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

Based on our research for the Survival Guide, the Sony DRM incident captured our interest, and we’ve been spening a lot of time working on aspects of this. We also ended up writing about this in the guide, in the DRM section.
Searching on Sony DRM will catch up up on what […]