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Open source for the future. Art, music, and sustainablity at Monome
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| My name is Adrienne, and I’m a graphic designer at Red Hat—I create meaning
| using type and image. The other day I stumbled upon a story involving music,
| sustainability, and open source. Needless to say, I was intrigued.
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http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/08/26/open-source-for-the-future-art-music-and-sustainablity-at-monome/
http://tinyurl.com/5qqjld
Apple's censorship (like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo):
iTunes Store back online in China after Tibet song leaves front page
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| The iTunes Store was blocked in China two weeks after an album released by
| Tibet activists appeared, but after the Olympics Games concluded, it was
| available once again.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13908_3-10027395-59.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
So Apple cooperated with a suppressive regime. So did IBM in WW2.
Tibet: "Beijing 10" return to USA; new Tibet docu "Leaving Fear Behind."
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| Image above: bloggers, artists, and pro-Tibet activists James Powderly, Tom
| Grant, Mike Liss, Jeremy Wells and John Watterberg arriving at LAX airport.
| They and others were held in jail in China for having participated in
| pro-Tibetan sovereignty demonstrations during the Olympics.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/26/tibet-beijing-10-ret.html
Good video.
Recent:
What if Apple stopped issuing DRM keys?
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| It happened to Microsoft and Yahoo. Could it happen to Apple?
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| Microsoft's now defunct MSN Music service made a similar announcement last
| spring. Some CNET News readers have asked whether the same thing could happen
| at iTunes. The answer to that question is yes, it most certainly could.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10004255-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
EFF: Microsoft betrayed MSN Music customers
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Microsoft has "betrayed" MSN
| Music customers and wants the company to make things right by issuing an
| apology, refunds, and eliminate digital rights management technology from the
| Zune music player.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9931304-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Ask Apple about the iPhone
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| Services like Amazon, eMusic, Napster, Rhapsody, Play.com and 7digital are
| all selling music without DRM. A typical response to this might be that Apple
| has no option to sell media without DRM, but this is simply untrue. Jobs is
| the largest individual shareholder at Disney, and he could insist that its
| films be DRM-free. Apple should be leading the way to promote DRM-free music,
| but instead is lagging behind. What is Apple doing to fix this? If it really
| is the RIAA's fault, can you tell me specifically what the RIAA said to Jobs
| when he asked for the ability to sell DRM-free music?
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http://www.defectivebydesign.org/apple-challenge
iTunes legal silences Hymn
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| Apple has fired a cease and desist order against the developers behind the
| open-source Hymn Project.
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| Hymn develops software that strips Apple's FairPlay digital rights management
| (DRM) technology from user's iTunes purchases, allowing music fans to play
| their music on devices other than those from Apple.
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http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?newsid=20538&pagtype=allchandate
Related:
A Linux User's Perspective on the ITunes Store (and DRM in General)
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| What if tomorrow you went to Best Buy or Walmart or Sam Goody and purchased a
| CD? What if, before you left the store, the salesman told you that although
| the CD was in all other respects a standard CD, that you could only play it
| if you owned a Pioneer or Sony stereo? Would that make any sense? Would it
| make you a bit hesitant about buying music from that store again?
|
| Well, if you purchase music or videos from the iTunes Store,
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| [...]
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| With content from the iTunes Store, however, users may find themselves a bit
| stuck if they ever want to make the switch to a more open computing platform,
| such as Linux. Because none of the DRM-restricted content from the iTunes
| Store will play on Linux. And it's all because that's how Apple wants it, to
| be honest, and not because of any technical limitation.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/324936/a_linux_users_perspective_on_the_itunes.html
Apple's latest trick to enforce digital rights
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| With this version of iTunes, users were finding that music
| subjected to the old download-burn-rip would no longer
| load onto their iPods.
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http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/06/09/10131156.html
Torvalds pleased that DRM music is dying
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| Linus Torvalds, coordinator of the Linux kernel, is pleased that music
| publishers have started selling more DRM-free music -- last year he said the
| technology was a lot of "hot air".
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Torvalds-pleased-that-DRM-music-is-dying/0,130061733,339285934,00.htm?feed=rss
Microsoft: We Like DRM
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| Steve Jobs wants the music business to drop restrictions for digital
| tunes. But Microsoft, which began competing head to head with Apple
| in the digital music business last fall, is happy with the way things
| are, says media exec Robbie Bach.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/08/zune-drm-itunes-tech-media-cx_df_0208bach.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/2lrz3y
Microsoft Tells Apple To Stop Complaining About DRM
http://www.podcastingnews.com/2007/04/13/microsoft-apple-drm/
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