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Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The simplest answer is because DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy. Though the big four music companies require that all their music sold online be protected with DRMs, these same music companies continue to sell billions of CDs a year which contain completely unprotected music. That’s right! No DRM system was ever developed for the CD, so all the music distributed on CDs can be easily uploaded to the Internet, then (illegally) downloaded and played on any computer or player.
Continue reading “Thoughts on music”, from Steve Jobs or Howto Kill the DRM stuff right now!
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Punish your Microsoft developer
Teresa Magalhães em entrevista
Teresa Magalhães em Entrevista a propósito da sua última exposição no Salão Nobre da Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes de 12 de Outubro a 19 de Novembro de 2005.
Podemos ver outra entrada sobre a mesma exposição em Teresa Magalhães na Soc. Nacional de Belas Artes
zefrank “thanksgiving”
[ the show with zefrank: 11-21-06 ]
This zefrank show is very good!
Bush is drinking again!?!
this video from the late late show is hilarious!
and there is one comment that is even better:
cpo2u said “That was just slow mo.”
or maybe the mainstream media is speeding up all the other footage video so Bush appears sober.
-Palpatine for Senate
🙂
One less car, one more bike
a nice theme with a nice video that came from a good initiative.
the video from Jamie Walker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, got to the semi-finalists of the 2006 FYI FILM YOUR ISSUE project.
a photographer with “An Ethical Dilemma”
This test only has one question, but it’s a very important one.
By answering the question honestly, you will discover where you stand morally. The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which you will have to make a decision. Your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous.
You are in Miami, Florida. There is chaos all around you, caused by a hurricane, with severe flooding. This is a flood of biblical proportions. You are a photo/journalist, working for a major newspaper, and you are caught in the middle of this disaster. Yet you are attempting to shoot career-making photos.
Suddenly, you see two men floundering in the water.
They are fighting for their lives, trying not to be taken down with the debris. You move closer. Somehow the men appear familiar. You suddenly realise who they are.
It’s George W. Bush and Tony Blair!
You have two options. You can either attempt to save their lives, or you can shoot dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photos, documenting the demise of two of the most powerful men on earth.
So, here’s the question:
Continue reading a photographer with “An Ethical Dilemma”
When do you want to SHIFT?
SHIFT, social and human ideas for technology
28 and 29 September 2006
SHiFT will be all about emerging technologies, whether they’re the latest internet trend or the latest social or psychological development. SHiFT will evolve around five major areas, and the idea is to have contributions about them from all sections of society:
People and Technology
Knowledge Management
Civic Participation
Rights, Liberties and Privacy for the Digital Age
New forms of Economics
Apart from the Conference (program and speakers), there are going to be four workshops on September 26 to 27th:
Designing the Next Generation of Web Applications with Peter Merholz
Creativity with Dannie Jost & Henriette Weber Andersen
This event wasn’t possible without the perseverance of Pedro Custódio (organization), and I personally thank him for trying to do some shifting in Portugal, unfortunately I couldn’t visit him and this great event.
I wish all the best for this event and for the lucky ones that are going. 🙂
Amanda Across America
Amanda Congdon is back and in my opinion is much better than it was before.
The way I see it, Rocketboom was a much more young cable tv type of program with the difference in the budget and the way it was broadcasted and received… And I am not saying that it wasn’t very important, it really made a turn-point in the way last mile broadcast can be done.
But now with this new Amanda Across America, you will have a lot more, because now the content and form is much more creative, different and experimental. I could say that also it is much more of a vlog than rocketboom ever was.
I hope to write more on this later…
for now I leave you with her new vlog / project!
about | and so, it begins | Josh Wolf Behind Bars Again | the wiki | the map.
ah ah, someone wrote about Amsterdam, Netherlands in the wiki already… 🙂
No Logo!
If you want to take out all those funny logos that we have in every phone or techno gagdet here you have it, a good tutorial from instructables.
You will find out that you can sugar them and puff they are lost! (found via gizmodo)
🙂