Canadian Minister of Industry Jim Prentice refuses to be interviewed about the forthcoming Canadian DMCA that his Ministry will be bringing down. Last week, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s radio show Search Engine solicited public suggestions for questions to put to the Minister about his copyright bill, but the show has been informed by the Minister’s [...]
SoX is a power-packed command-line tool for various types of audio processing. It’s very useful as an audio format converter, and it can be used for resampling audio files, converting between endianness, audio encoding and modifying other attributes of common audio file formats.
Its main power, however, is its effect plugins. It can apply various effects [...]
The Canadian government is about to bring down Canada’s version of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and it promises to be the worst copyright law in the developed world. It will contain an “anti-circumvention” clause that prohibits breaking the locks off your music and movies in order to move them to new devices or [...]
San Diego based Slacker will be going head to head with some tough competition like, Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Raido
Slacker players will be able to play downloaded music, but it’s main emphasis is the radio style service.
Pre orders for Slacker are being taken on the Web site, with shipping [...]
“Edgar Bronfman, CEO of the Warner Music Group, has publicly framed the music industry’s failure to accommodate file-sharing as an ‘inadvertent’ war on consumers. I’m left wondering how you can file a series of lawsuits inadvertently. ‘We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant connection and file sharing [...]
Eric D. Wilkinson, producer of the independent film “Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth,” has written a letter to the editor of Releaselog, a site that reviews leaked movies available on P2P networks. He hasn’t written to complain, mind — he wrote in to say how much promotional value the piracy of his movie on [...]
In an industry first, 20th Century Fox is expected to announce Tuesday that the special-edition DVD of “Live Free or Die Hard” will come with an electronic copy of the complete movie that can be played on a computer and select portable video players.
Nice!
Source: Yahoo News
~LC
Technorati Tags: DRM-Free, Die Hard, Movies, Multimedia
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Well, that was true, (for about 36 hours) but it didn’t last long!
I wasn’t surprised to see a “fix” for Apples attempt to put an end to the Linux, IPod friendship.
Sunday, September 16. 2007
iPod Classic Will Be Supported
As recently reported on Slashdot, Apple, in its infinite wisdom, has added a checksum to the iPod database [...]
Michael Geist - Saturday September 15, 2007: The Canadian Recording Industry Association this week quietly filed documents in the Federal Court of Appeal that will likely shock many in the industry. CRIA, which spent more than 15 years lobbying for the creation of the private copying levy, is now fighting to eliminate the application of [...]
Will Fisher writes “New iPods will no longer be able to work with Linux. iTunes now writes some kind of hash (SHA1, md5?) to the iPod database which new iPods check against. If this check fails then the iPod reports that it contains 0 songs. This appears to be protection against 3rd party applications writing [...]
