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More followup on Sarmite Bulte : Is Canadian CopyRight for Sale?. Michael Geist asks “Cause or Effect“, and wonders about her inability to comprehend why so many Canadians are troubled by her January 19th fundraiser and her history of accepting Continue reading Sam Bulte : What’s That Smell and is it Cause or Effect
The Canadian Federal MP for my riding of Parkdale/High Park, Sarmite (Sam) Bulte, is holding a fundraiser hosted by various lobbyists: Doug Frith (President of Canadian Motion Pictures Distributors Association – CMPDA), Graham Henderson (President of Canadian Recording Industry Association Continue reading Sarmite Bulte : Is Canadian CopyRight for Sale?
The Songbird Media Player is a desktop media player, built atop XULRunner platform (also used by Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox and Thunderbird), and will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Just like Firefox, it will be open to extensions! Continue reading The Songbird Media Player, built with XUL, DRM free.
exhibit #1 Sony infects your computer : Play a legally purchased Sony BMG Music CD on your computer, and it installs hidden rootkit-based DRM backdoor software. What’s a RootKit? A rootkit is a set of virus-like tools frequently used by Continue reading When Entertainment Companies Become Gangsters
Story on CNN, about the problem regular people are having with DRM crippled music, and how angry they are. So what does Sony Music do?Fans who complain to Sony BMG about iPod incompatibility are directed to a Web site (http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp) Continue reading Music Label tells you how to break their own DRM
As reported by the Globe and Mail, a poll commissioned by the Canadian Recording Industry Association, tries to link free downloading – which is not illegal in Canada – as a gateway crime leading to bigger illegal things. “Not only Continue reading Crimilisation and stigmatizing of P2P continues