Paramount apparently decided that it would be a great idea to deter and track piracy by silencing random parts of the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This seems to be a sort of watermarking technique to be able to identify the cinema the copy of the movie was made.. if [...]
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
Can you please hand over all electronic devices that you carry with you, Sir ? I need to check them thoroughly for copyright infringing material, terrorist activity and pornography. Is that a video of you and your wife, wow that looks hot. Is that the new song of Madonna ? Do you have a receipt [...]
Napster Goes DRM-Free
I don’t own an iPod or any other music player so this post is not really something I’ve tried out yet. First it was Amazon, then iTunes, and now Napster. What am I referring to? DRM-free music of course.
Everyone who’s ever experienced music with DRM knows just how frustrating things can get. You buy a [...]
The Trouble with Nokia’s Music Service
Mobile phone giant Nokia is looking for a foothold into the music distribution business. To that end, Nokia has introduced an online music service called the Nokia Music Store in Australia. Their aim is to provide a service that will take on Apple’s iTunes and win.
There’s nothing wrong in wanting to beat iTunes. However, the [...]
Microsoft shows us another reason why DRM is evil
Those users who made purchases in online stores that were using DRM to “protect” the files from being copied and traded are slowly beginning to reap what they sowed. I never bought music or other files that were protected by DRM. The protection is not that hard to crack anyway if someone really wanted to [...]
Pennywise Reason to Believe Album Free at Myspace
There is undoubtedly a trend of releasing music albums for free / for donations / for what individuals are willing to pay on the Internet. The last months were full of stories about bands like Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails who managed to create lots of publicity by using these new distribution methods that would [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Feb 29th, 2008
- Comments: 6
The ultimate online jazz community
I loveYouTube, but you have to face it, specific genre sites can be much better. If you want music Imeem may be much better, if you want comedy then go to specific comedy sites like Ebaumsworld and such. Similarly, if you want jazz, go to a genre site like My Jazz Network.
My Jazz Network is [...]
