Category Archives: Digital Rights
Amazon vs. Macmillan: Authors lose, physical books win
Amazon has pulled books from publisher Macmillan off of its virtual "shelves" because the publisher has told Amazon it wants to increase its ebook prices and split royalties 70/30. Amazon said publicly that it would (eventually) agree to Macmillan's terms, but in the meantime they've yanked titles off the site and there's no indication when [...]
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Richard Stallman on GPL Exceptions
Richard Stallman raised more than a few eyebrows when he signed the letter objecting to the MySQL purchase. Endorsing, or seeming to endorse, the practice of selling proprietary exceptions to GPL'ed software seemed entirely out of character with Stallman's comments on Free Software up to that point. To clarify, Stallman has written up an essay [...]
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DRM in Windows Vista
It probably won't surprise blog readers that I did not run out and buy Windows Vista at the first available opportunity when it was released recently. (Nor did I run out for it at the second, third, fourth, or any subsequent opportunity...) Aside from my general loathing of the Windows platform in general, Vista's stunningly [...]
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So much for "protecting the artists," huh?
Remember when the RIAA started going on its anti-filesharing rampage, under the guise of "protecting the artists"? It turns out, they're finally admitting they're really looking out for the record companies:
As quoted by The Hollywood Reporter,"Mechanical royalties currently are out of whack with historical and international rates," RIAA executive VP and General Counsel Steven Marks [...]
SourceForge Removes "Blanket" Block