Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Imagine if real world objects, like paintings, photographs, digital cameras, etc had DRM.
I just got a new camera and I've been having fun taking pictures of my daughter. But every time I take a picture, I'm probably violating somebody's copyright or design patent, or whatever.
The painting in the ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
So, I thought I'd give the iPlayer from the BBC a try. It comes in two flavors: A downloadable application and a Flash player version. The downloadable version is Windows only, so I had to try the Flash version.
I was impressed by the ease of accessing the actual shows. ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
There have been a number of reports in the media about the failure of the Apple TV. While right, none of them have correctly identified the problem. Namely the DMCA.
The DMCA makes it illegal to break an encryption key used to protect copyrighted content. In plain english, while Apple can ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
There have been a number of US sites reporting that when the iPhone goes on sale in France, it'll be available in both locked-to-Orange and unlocked versions.
The unlocked version will apparently cost more than the locked version.
This means two things:
1) The phone is being subsidised, like most phone. It's ...
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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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