Tag Archive: DRM
TGIF:
- Political rhetoric in graph form: same numbers, different representation.
- German author who’s work is known to contain entire pages of plagiarized work, still in the running for a $20,000 prize.
- In an effort to curb video game piracy, Ubisoft has decided to require you to maintain a connection to their servers while you play their games. This can’t end well.
In other news: CPAC is happening right now. The annual conference for all things Conservative in America is a font of disturbing and/or amusing stories. For example, CPAC decided to allow GOProud, a conservative GLBT group, to sponsor the event. At the time this caused some controversy. Now at the event itself we get to see the response, accompanied as always with the brilliant logic that conservatives bring to bear on gay issues:
This article over on the New York Times makes me chuckle.
Point of amusement #1: The Headline. “Media Outlets Prepare to Charge for Content Online”. No offense NYT, but media outlets have been talking about charging for content for years now. The problem: charging for information on the internet is like trying sell oxygen to a greenhouse. Anything media outlets could charge for today was probably available yesterday for free. Yet as much as they try to crack down on that sorta thing with DRM and DMCA takedown notices and over the top lawsuits it never seems to actually cut down on “piracy”.
Point of amusement #2: This quote at the end.
“One of the problems is newspapers fired so many journalists and turned them loose to start so many blogs,” Mr. Mutter said. “They should have executed them. They wouldn’t have had competition. But they foolishly let them out alive.”
