I haven’t listened to Hard-Fi in awhile, but their last CD was called “Stars of CCTV” and it’s pretty good. Unfortunately, this band, The Get Out Clause have proven Hard-Fi completely wrong: Gizmodo has a good write-up on how it was all done. The short version is that freedom of information can be a beautiful [...]

I have a small, tiny, infinitesimal ‘thing’ about something called Digital Rights Management (DRM). DRM is the un-lubed finger slipped past the sphincters of unsuspecting consumer primarily by the music and movie industries. Officially, DRM allows copyright holders to fight unauthorized copying of their digital content. Before this was an issue, copyright holders had some [...]

As reported on Time here (not to mention a couple hundred blogs already), Radiohead is offering its new CD, In Rainbows for DRM-free download on their web site. What’s the big deal, right? They’ve been doing that for awhile, right? Well this time, you get to decide how much the music is worth. That’s right, [...]

… Well, till it’s dead. Dead – ER, that is! What the hell am I talking about? Well, of course, it’s DRM, the music industry, etc, etc, on and on. I know, it’s like that old scratched Grease soundtrack you kept listening to because when it jumps in the right place, “You’re The One That [...]

If you look over to the right, you’ll see a link to the Gizmodo Anti-RIAA manifesto. The RIAA is pure evil. When I talk about allofmp3.com and how great it is, people always ask if the money goes to the artists. It doesn’t, but let me clear up a little misconception: the artists don’t get [...]

As a simple search of this site will tell you, I hate the RIAA with a passion. I am not alone, either. Recently, Gizmodo published its Anti-RIAA Manifesto to kick off their efforts to boycott the RIAA in March. Admirable plans, guys. I couldn’t agree more with your position. One commenter on that last link [...]

Rather than string this crap out into a bunch of posts, I thought I would cram a few into one post: Politicians are trying to take away your Internet Yes, I’ve talked about this before, and to be honest this guy’s usually kind of a blow-hard. Every now and then, however, he manages to do [...]

On Friday, July 23, call the RIAA and tell them you’re not gonna take it anymore. Before you do that, head over to Defective By Design and sign up so they can email you a phone number to call. The idea is to swamp RIAA executives with calls protesting digital rights management, or DRM. The [...]

More and more people are finding out about what used to be the Intarnet-web’s best kept secret: allofmp3.com kicks iTunes’ ass. Plain and simple. Why? For many reasons: allofmp3.com offers music files in just about any format you would want including OGG, FLAC, WMA and of course MP3. Some CDs can even be bought in [...]

EFF: RIAA Petition In the past year or two, the RIAA has made headlines for suing old ladies, single moms, minors (when suits against their parents were thrown out), and most recently, a very poor family who has never even owned a computer!  Recently, I was amazed at the greed exhibited by the music industry [...]