Cory Doctorow on the deal between ISPs and the music industry to spy on and interfere with music sharers:
This month’s announcement of a back-room deal between ISPs (internet service providers) and the big record companies to spy on suspected copyright infringers and reduce the quality of their internet connections is just the latest [...]
Bruce Sterling’s Dead Media Project is a catalog of media formats that are no longer in use. In many cases, media stored in these dead formats can no longer be read because there aren’t readers are no longer available for them.
The project came to mind when I read about some trouble my friend Andrew Brown [...]
Tags: · DRM
It seems that the recent trend in the music industry has been to make tracks available without DRM but to snub Apple by refusing to allow them to sell the DRM-free tracks through the iTunes Music Store. I suspect that this is a sort of vigilante antitrust action by the record companies that they [...]
Tags: · Amazon.com, Apple, DRM, music