Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
Friday, October 5th, 2007
In a Washington Post article dated Friday, December 16, 2005, available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/15/AR2005121502378.html, President Bush is asked about the music on his iPod.
President Bush is quoted as saying, in part, that one of the artists on his iPod is The Beatles.
As you may know, none of The Beatles ...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
The Apple UK iTunes Store started offering television shows and boy, what a rip-off. First, the price is too high. Second, you get lower quality, third, it's locked to your Apple hardware.
In the US. The price for series 1 of Lost is $34.99. That's about £18 including tax at the ...
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Friday, March 17th, 2006
It seems that Sony Pictures have decided to initially ship Blue-Ray titles without using the capability of the Blue-Ray player to downsample analog output.
This means that people who bought HD ready TVs in anticipation of watching high-def movies, but whose TVs don't have the latest HDCP copy protection will still ...
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Saturday, February 11th, 2006
I attended the second meeting of the Open Rights Group. As usual, I got my fill of copyright activism and listened to a talk by Cory Doctorow, former EFF European Affairs Co-ordinator, novelist, copyfighter, etc.
He said something in the Q and A period that was something of a revelation ...
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Sunday, September 4th, 2005
The Daily Kos discusses the federal response to the New Orleans disaster in this post. The most incredible part is the recording of an interview with the Mayor of New Orleans where he accuses the Governor and Bush of doing nothing but spinning.
From the news reports I've read, he's ...
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