Now it’s the New Scientist that, despite BMG’s announcement and Macrovision’s plans, Audio CD protection is not best of ideas:
Copy Protection On CDs Is ‘Worthless’
[via Slashdot]
Archives mensuelles : novembre 2002
All Consuming
John Udell has an interesting post today. I can’t really summarize this, except to say that it’s really interesting and it’s the kind of neat trick what pulls the Internet forward.
Oh, and it makes me want to talk about books available on Amazon! I don’t know if anyone at Amazon or at weblog.com ever envisioned something like that when they put their API together. I doubt it. I think it just shows that creativity can’t be planned and that giving toys away to people will lead to wonderfully unexpected results.
Read on…
Continuer la lecture
No more CDs say Macrovision and Midbar Tech
Macrovision has announced that it will acquire Israeli company Midbar Tech, with the intention of joining the rival
anti-copying technologies from the two companies.
Macrovision and Midbar promise that by next year, CDs using
their joint copy-protection technology will include two
versions of songs – one for ordinary CD players, and one
that can be loaded onto computer hard drives.
So many good news today…
New AOL Instant Messenger may monitor enployees
The Washington Post reports :America Online has begun offering a new version of AOL Instant Messenger to companies that will enable employers to read instant messages sent by their employees. The new
version will also enable employees to send encrypted instant
messages that can only be read by designated, registered
recipients.
[Via BNA Internet Law News]
Online Daters Lie About It
Gartner slams 3G navel gazing
it’s the consumers, stupid
I don’t always like reports from Gartner, but this look fairly acurate to me.
« The vast majority of consumers don’t know what their phones are capable of today, let alone what 3G is and why they should have it. It does not matter how good 3G is if nobody knows or understands what they can do with it
[via The Register]
On stardom…
Do you want your 15MB of fame?
-Pseudo
About my language dilemma…
It’s a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting medical studies:
The Japanese eat relatively little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
The French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
The Japanese drink relatively little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
The Italians drink generous amounts of red wine and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
The Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and other fatty foods and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
CONCLUSION: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.
(thanks Max)
Eldred argument transcripts
The official version.
[via Aaron Swartz]
Amen brother
Etan on privacy.
Suis-je crédible?
Il y a eu cette étude qui a fait remuer pas mal d’électrons a propos de la crédibilité des informations sur le Web.
Je fréquente personnellement pas mal les sites de « comparison-shopping » mais peu ceux offrant des informations médicales ou financières. J’ai le réflexe de toujours chercher un second quand ce n’est pas un troisième avis. En somme, l’Internet n’est pas vraiment différent de la presse écrite dans le fond…
Mais moi, suis-je crédible? Aie-je besoin de l’être dans la mesure où je ne fais le plus souvent que renvoyer vers d’autres ressources (et hormis le fait que je n’aie rien à vendre)? Dois-je faire une déclaration de mes intérêts personnels qui teintent mon objectivité? Dois-je tendre à l’objectivité? (viam objectivitis elegi?).
Je crois que non. Ce serait nettement moins drôle pour tout le monde. Mes intérêts sont assez inoffensifs et transparaissent de manière assez claire pour que je me sente à l’aise avec ça.
Bon.. je pense que j’ai besoin d’une tasse de thé. Lapsang Souchong ou thé vert?
Pour la postérité
Cla me demande si j’ai des sites sur la vie privée. Ma spécialiste en résidence sur la question me réponds:
http://www.privacy.org/
http://www.qlinks.net/quicklinks/dataprot.htm
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/
http://www.eff.org/privnow/
http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/privacy.html
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/fr/dataprot/index.htm
Je vais créer une catégorie « For the record »
Winnie c. Walt
Moi ca m’énerve un peu de voir Disney essayer d’étendre la couverte sur Mickey tout en faisait la piastre avec des oeuvres dont le droit d’auteur a expiré et en essayant de gruger sur les redevances lorsqu’il y en a. (oui oui, ce billet était pour publier ce dernier lien, les autres sont accessoires.)
[via LawMeme]
No more CDs says BMG
The Register has a story on BMG announcing that Europe will be it’s new testbed for a copy-protected discs only catalog. (we should not call them CDs anymore).
Slashdot has picked up the story. Oh, BoingBoing too.
For now, us Region 1 people will still find mostly « normal » CDs on the shelves.
UNSG on the digital divide
So much has been written on this topic, yet not that much has filtered through into the mass media. Well here’s Kofi Annan on CNET.
[via /.]